1 accept_memory= [MM] 2 Format: { eager | lazy } 3 default: lazy 4 By default, unaccepted memory is accepted lazily to 5 avoid prolonged boot times. The lazy option will add 6 some runtime overhead until all memory is eventually 7 accepted. In most cases the overhead is negligible. 8 For some workloads or for debugging purposes 9 accept_memory=eager can be used to accept all memory 10 at once during boot. 11 12 acpi= [HW,ACPI,X86,ARM64,RISCV64,EARLY] 13 Advanced Configuration and Power Interface 14 Format: { force | on | off | strict | noirq | rsdt | 15 copy_dsdt | nospcr } 16 force -- enable ACPI if default was off 17 on -- enable ACPI but allow fallback to DT [arm64,riscv64] 18 off -- disable ACPI if default was on 19 noirq -- do not use ACPI for IRQ routing 20 strict -- Be less tolerant of platforms that are not 21 strictly ACPI specification compliant. 22 rsdt -- prefer RSDT over (default) XSDT 23 copy_dsdt -- copy DSDT to memory 24 nospcr -- disable console in ACPI SPCR table as 25 default _serial_ console on ARM64 26 For ARM64, ONLY "acpi=off", "acpi=on", "acpi=force" or 27 "acpi=nospcr" are available 28 For RISCV64, ONLY "acpi=off", "acpi=on" or "acpi=force" 29 are available 30 31 See also Documentation/power/runtime_pm.rst, pci=noacpi 32 33 acpi_apic_instance= [ACPI,IOAPIC,EARLY] 34 Format: <int> 35 2: use 2nd APIC table, if available 36 1,0: use 1st APIC table 37 default: 0 38 39 acpi_backlight= [HW,ACPI] 40 { vendor | video | native | none } 41 If set to vendor, prefer vendor-specific driver 42 (e.g. thinkpad_acpi, sony_acpi, etc.) instead 43 of the ACPI video.ko driver. 44 If set to video, use the ACPI video.ko driver. 45 If set to native, use the device's native backlight mode. 46 If set to none, disable the ACPI backlight interface. 47 48 acpi_force_32bit_fadt_addr [ACPI,EARLY] 49 force FADT to use 32 bit addresses rather than the 50 64 bit X_* addresses. Some firmware have broken 64 51 bit addresses for force ACPI ignore these and use 52 the older legacy 32 bit addresses. 53 54 acpica_no_return_repair [HW, ACPI] 55 Disable AML predefined validation mechanism 56 This mechanism can repair the evaluation result to make 57 the return objects more ACPI specification compliant. 58 This option is useful for developers to identify the 59 root cause of an AML interpreter issue when the issue 60 has something to do with the repair mechanism. 61 62 acpi.debug_layer= [HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG] 63 acpi.debug_level= [HW,ACPI,ACPI_DEBUG] 64 Format: <int> 65 CONFIG_ACPI_DEBUG must be enabled to produce any ACPI 66 debug output. Bits in debug_layer correspond to a 67 _COMPONENT in an ACPI source file, e.g., 68 #define _COMPONENT ACPI_EVENTS 69 Bits in debug_level correspond to a level in 70 ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT statements, e.g., 71 ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT((ACPI_DB_INFO, ... 72 The debug_level mask defaults to "info". See 73 Documentation/firmware-guide/acpi/debug.rst for more information about 74 debug layers and levels. 75 76 Enable processor driver info messages: 77 acpi.debug_layer=0x20000000 78 Enable AML "Debug" output, i.e., stores to the Debug 79 object while interpreting AML: 80 acpi.debug_layer=0xffffffff acpi.debug_level=0x2 81 Enable all messages related to ACPI hardware: 82 acpi.debug_layer=0x2 acpi.debug_level=0xffffffff 83 84 Some values produce so much output that the system is 85 unusable. The "log_buf_len" parameter may be useful 86 if you need to capture more output. 87 88 acpi_enforce_resources= [ACPI] 89 { strict | lax | no } 90 Check for resource conflicts between native drivers 91 and ACPI OperationRegions (SystemIO and SystemMemory 92 only). IO ports and memory declared in ACPI might be 93 used by the ACPI subsystem in arbitrary AML code and 94 can interfere with legacy drivers. 95 strict (default): access to resources claimed by ACPI 96 is denied; legacy drivers trying to access reserved 97 resources will fail to bind to device using them. 98 lax: access to resources claimed by ACPI is allowed; 99 legacy drivers trying to access reserved resources 100 will bind successfully but a warning message is logged. 101 no: ACPI OperationRegions are not marked as reserved, 102 no further checks are performed. 103 104 acpi_force_table_verification [HW,ACPI,EARLY] 105 Enable table checksum verification during early stage. 106 By default, this is disabled due to x86 early mapping 107 size limitation. 108 109 acpi_irq_balance [HW,ACPI] 110 ACPI will balance active IRQs 111 default in APIC mode 112 113 acpi_irq_nobalance [HW,ACPI] 114 ACPI will not move active IRQs (default) 115 default in PIC mode 116 117 acpi_irq_isa= [HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, mark listed IRQs used by ISA 118 Format: <irq>,<irq>... 119 120 acpi_irq_pci= [HW,ACPI] If irq_balance, clear listed IRQs for 121 use by PCI 122 Format: <irq>,<irq>... 123 124 acpi_mask_gpe= [HW,ACPI] 125 Due to the existence of _Lxx/_Exx, some GPEs triggered 126 by unsupported hardware/firmware features can result in 127 GPE floodings that cannot be automatically disabled by 128 the GPE dispatcher. 129 This facility can be used to prevent such uncontrolled 130 GPE floodings. 131 Format: <byte> or <bitmap-list> 132 133 acpi_no_auto_serialize [HW,ACPI] 134 Disable auto-serialization of AML methods 135 AML control methods that contain the opcodes to create 136 named objects will be marked as "Serialized" by the 137 auto-serialization feature. 138 This feature is enabled by default. 139 This option allows to turn off the feature. 140 141 acpi_no_memhotplug [ACPI] Disable memory hotplug. Useful for kdump 142 kernels. 143 144 acpi_no_static_ssdt [HW,ACPI,EARLY] 145 Disable installation of static SSDTs at early boot time 146 By default, SSDTs contained in the RSDT/XSDT will be 147 installed automatically and they will appear under 148 /sys/firmware/acpi/tables. 149 This option turns off this feature. 150 Note that specifying this option does not affect 151 dynamic table installation which will install SSDT 152 tables to /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/dynamic. 153 154 acpi_no_watchdog [HW,ACPI,WDT] 155 Ignore the ACPI-based watchdog interface (WDAT) and let 156 a native driver control the watchdog device instead. 157 158 acpi_rsdp= [ACPI,EFI,KEXEC,EARLY] 159 Pass the RSDP address to the kernel, mostly used 160 on machines running EFI runtime service to boot the 161 second kernel for kdump. 162 163 acpi_os_name= [HW,ACPI] Tell ACPI BIOS the name of the OS 164 Format: To spoof as Windows 98: ="Microsoft Windows" 165 166 acpi_rev_override [ACPI] Override the _REV object to return 5 (instead 167 of 2 which is mandated by ACPI 6) as the supported ACPI 168 specification revision (when using this switch, it may 169 be necessary to carry out a cold reboot _twice_ in a 170 row to make it take effect on the platform firmware). 171 172 acpi_osi= [HW,ACPI] Modify list of supported OS interface strings 173 acpi_osi="string1" # add string1 174 acpi_osi="!string2" # remove string2 175 acpi_osi=!* # remove all strings 176 acpi_osi=! # disable all built-in OS vendor 177 strings 178 acpi_osi=!! # enable all built-in OS vendor 179 strings 180 acpi_osi= # disable all strings 181 182 'acpi_osi=!' can be used in combination with single or 183 multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific OS 184 vendor string(s). Note that such command can only 185 affect the default state of the OS vendor strings, thus 186 it cannot affect the default state of the feature group 187 strings and the current state of the OS vendor strings, 188 specifying it multiple times through kernel command line 189 is meaningless. This command is useful when one do not 190 care about the state of the feature group strings which 191 should be controlled by the OSPM. 192 Examples: 193 1. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is equivalent 194 to 'acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!', they all 195 can make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE. 196 197 'acpi_osi=' cannot be used in combination with other 198 'acpi_osi=' command lines, the _OSI method will not 199 exist in the ACPI namespace. NOTE that such command can 200 only affect the _OSI support state, thus specifying it 201 multiple times through kernel command line is also 202 meaningless. 203 Examples: 204 1. 'acpi_osi=' can make 'CondRefOf(_OSI, Local1)' 205 FALSE. 206 207 'acpi_osi=!*' can be used in combination with single or 208 multiple 'acpi_osi="string1"' to support specific 209 string(s). Note that such command can affect the 210 current state of both the OS vendor strings and the 211 feature group strings, thus specifying it multiple times 212 through kernel command line is meaningful. But it may 213 still not able to affect the final state of a string if 214 there are quirks related to this string. This command 215 is useful when one want to control the state of the 216 feature group strings to debug BIOS issues related to 217 the OSPM features. 218 Examples: 219 1. 'acpi_osi="Module Device" acpi_osi=!*' can make 220 '_OSI("Module Device")' FALSE. 221 2. 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Module Device"' can make 222 '_OSI("Module Device")' TRUE. 223 3. 'acpi_osi=! acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' is 224 equivalent to 225 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2000"' 226 and 227 'acpi_osi=!* acpi_osi="Windows 2000" acpi_osi=!', 228 they all will make '_OSI("Windows 2000")' TRUE. 229 230 acpi_pm_good [X86] 231 Override the pmtimer bug detection: force the kernel 232 to assume that this machine's pmtimer latches its value 233 and always returns good values. 234 235 acpi_sci= [HW,ACPI,EARLY] ACPI System Control Interrupt trigger mode 236 Format: { level | edge | high | low } 237 238 acpi_skip_timer_override [HW,ACPI,EARLY] 239 Recognize and ignore IRQ0/pin2 Interrupt Override. 240 For broken nForce2 BIOS resulting in XT-PIC timer. 241 242 acpi_sleep= [HW,ACPI] Sleep options 243 Format: { s3_bios, s3_mode, s3_beep, s4_hwsig, 244 s4_nohwsig, old_ordering, nonvs, 245 sci_force_enable, nobl } 246 See Documentation/power/video.rst for information on 247 s3_bios and s3_mode. 248 s3_beep is for debugging; it makes the PC's speaker beep 249 as soon as the kernel's real-mode entry point is called. 250 s4_hwsig causes the kernel to check the ACPI hardware 251 signature during resume from hibernation, and gracefully 252 refuse to resume if it has changed. This complies with 253 the ACPI specification but not with reality, since 254 Windows does not do this and many laptops do change it 255 on docking. So the default behaviour is to allow resume 256 and simply warn when the signature changes, unless the 257 s4_hwsig option is enabled. 258 s4_nohwsig prevents ACPI hardware signature from being 259 used (or even warned about) during resume. 260 old_ordering causes the ACPI 1.0 ordering of the _PTS 261 control method, with respect to putting devices into 262 low power states, to be enforced (the ACPI 2.0 ordering 263 of _PTS is used by default). 264 nonvs prevents the kernel from saving/restoring the 265 ACPI NVS memory during suspend/hibernation and resume. 266 sci_force_enable causes the kernel to set SCI_EN directly 267 on resume from S1/S3 (which is against the ACPI spec, 268 but some broken systems don't work without it). 269 nobl causes the internal blacklist of systems known to 270 behave incorrectly in some ways with respect to system 271 suspend and resume to be ignored (use wisely). 272 273 acpi_use_timer_override [HW,ACPI,EARLY] 274 Use timer override. For some broken Nvidia NF5 boards 275 that require a timer override, but don't have HPET 276 277 add_efi_memmap [EFI,X86,EARLY] Include EFI memory map in 278 kernel's map of available physical RAM. 279 280 agp= [AGP] 281 { off | try_unsupported } 282 off: disable AGP support 283 try_unsupported: try to drive unsupported chipsets 284 (may crash computer or cause data corruption) 285 286 ALSA [HW,ALSA] 287 See Documentation/sound/alsa-configuration.rst 288 289 alignment= [KNL,ARM] 290 Allow the default userspace alignment fault handler 291 behaviour to be specified. Bit 0 enables warnings, 292 bit 1 enables fixups, and bit 2 sends a segfault. 293 294 align_va_addr= [X86-64] 295 Align virtual addresses by clearing slice [14:12] when 296 allocating a VMA at process creation time. This option 297 gives you up to 3% performance improvement on AMD F15h 298 machines (where it is enabled by default) for a 299 CPU-intensive style benchmark, and it can vary highly in 300 a microbenchmark depending on workload and compiler. 301 302 32: only for 32-bit processes 303 64: only for 64-bit processes 304 on: enable for both 32- and 64-bit processes 305 off: disable for both 32- and 64-bit processes 306 307 alloc_snapshot [FTRACE] 308 Allocate the ftrace snapshot buffer on boot up when the 309 main buffer is allocated. This is handy if debugging 310 and you need to use tracing_snapshot() on boot up, and 311 do not want to use tracing_snapshot_alloc() as it needs 312 to be done where GFP_KERNEL allocations are allowed. 313 314 allow_mismatched_32bit_el0 [ARM64,EARLY] 315 Allow execve() of 32-bit applications and setting of the 316 PER_LINUX32 personality on systems where only a strict 317 subset of the CPUs support 32-bit EL0. When this 318 parameter is present, the set of CPUs supporting 32-bit 319 EL0 is indicated by /sys/devices/system/cpu/aarch32_el0 320 and hot-unplug operations may be restricted. 321 322 See Documentation/arch/arm64/asymmetric-32bit.rst for more 323 information. 324 325 amd_iommu= [HW,X86-64] 326 Pass parameters to the AMD IOMMU driver in the system. 327 Possible values are: 328 fullflush - Deprecated, equivalent to iommu.strict=1 329 off - do not initialize any AMD IOMMU found in 330 the system 331 force_isolation - Force device isolation for all 332 devices. The IOMMU driver is not 333 allowed anymore to lift isolation 334 requirements as needed. This option 335 does not override iommu=pt 336 force_enable - Force enable the IOMMU on platforms known 337 to be buggy with IOMMU enabled. Use this 338 option with care. 339 pgtbl_v1 - Use v1 page table for DMA-API (Default). 340 pgtbl_v2 - Use v2 page table for DMA-API. 341 irtcachedis - Disable Interrupt Remapping Table (IRT) caching. 342 nohugepages - Limit page-sizes used for v1 page-tables 343 to 4 KiB. 344 v2_pgsizes_only - Limit page-sizes used for v1 page-tables 345 to 4KiB/2Mib/1GiB. 346 347 348 amd_iommu_dump= [HW,X86-64] 349 Enable AMD IOMMU driver option to dump the ACPI table 350 for AMD IOMMU. With this option enabled, AMD IOMMU 351 driver will print ACPI tables for AMD IOMMU during 352 IOMMU initialization. 353 354 amd_iommu_intr= [HW,X86-64] 355 Specifies one of the following AMD IOMMU interrupt 356 remapping modes: 357 legacy - Use legacy interrupt remapping mode. 358 vapic - Use virtual APIC mode, which allows IOMMU 359 to inject interrupts directly into guest. 360 This mode requires kvm-amd.avic=1. 361 (Default when IOMMU HW support is present.) 362 363 amd_pstate= [X86,EARLY] 364 disable 365 Do not enable amd_pstate as the default 366 scaling driver for the supported processors 367 passive 368 Use amd_pstate with passive mode as a scaling driver. 369 In this mode autonomous selection is disabled. 370 Driver requests a desired performance level and platform 371 tries to match the same performance level if it is 372 satisfied by guaranteed performance level. 373 active 374 Use amd_pstate_epp driver instance as the scaling driver, 375 driver provides a hint to the hardware if software wants 376 to bias toward performance (0x0) or energy efficiency (0xff) 377 to the CPPC firmware. then CPPC power algorithm will 378 calculate the runtime workload and adjust the realtime cores 379 frequency. 380 guided 381 Activate guided autonomous mode. Driver requests minimum and 382 maximum performance level and the platform autonomously 383 selects a performance level in this range and appropriate 384 to the current workload. 385 386 amd_prefcore= 387 [X86] 388 disable 389 Disable amd-pstate preferred core. 390 391 amijoy.map= [HW,JOY] Amiga joystick support 392 Map of devices attached to JOY0DAT and JOY1DAT 393 Format: <a>,<b> 394 See also Documentation/input/joydev/joystick.rst 395 396 analog.map= [HW,JOY] Analog joystick and gamepad support 397 Specifies type or capabilities of an analog joystick 398 connected to one of 16 gameports 399 Format: <type1>,<type2>,..<type16> 400 401 apc= [HW,SPARC] 402 Power management functions (SPARCstation-4/5 + deriv.) 403 Format: noidle 404 Disable APC CPU standby support. SPARCstation-Fox does 405 not play well with APC CPU idle - disable it if you have 406 APC and your system crashes randomly. 407 408 apic= [APIC,X86,EARLY] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller 409 Change the output verbosity while booting 410 Format: { quiet (default) | verbose | debug } 411 Change the amount of debugging information output 412 when initialising the APIC and IO-APIC components. 413 For X86-32, this can also be used to specify an APIC 414 driver name. 415 Format: apic=driver_name 416 Examples: apic=bigsmp 417 418 apic_extnmi= [APIC,X86,EARLY] External NMI delivery setting 419 Format: { bsp (default) | all | none } 420 bsp: External NMI is delivered only to CPU 0 421 all: External NMIs are broadcast to all CPUs as a 422 backup of CPU 0 423 none: External NMI is masked for all CPUs. This is 424 useful so that a dump capture kernel won't be 425 shot down by NMI 426 427 autoconf= [IPV6] 428 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.rst. 429 430 apm= [APM] Advanced Power Management 431 See header of arch/x86/kernel/apm_32.c. 432 433 apparmor= [APPARMOR] Disable or enable AppArmor at boot time 434 Format: { "0" | "1" } 435 See security/apparmor/Kconfig help text 436 0 -- disable. 437 1 -- enable. 438 Default value is set via kernel config option. 439 440 arcrimi= [HW,NET] ARCnet - "RIM I" (entirely mem-mapped) cards 441 Format: <io>,<irq>,<nodeID> 442 443 arm64.no32bit_el0 [ARM64] Unconditionally disable the execution of 444 32 bit applications. 445 446 arm64.nobti [ARM64] Unconditionally disable Branch Target 447 Identification support 448 449 arm64.nomops [ARM64] Unconditionally disable Memory Copy and Memory 450 Set instructions support 451 452 arm64.nomte [ARM64] Unconditionally disable Memory Tagging Extension 453 support 454 455 arm64.nopauth [ARM64] Unconditionally disable Pointer Authentication 456 support 457 458 arm64.nosme [ARM64] Unconditionally disable Scalable Matrix 459 Extension support 460 461 arm64.nosve [ARM64] Unconditionally disable Scalable Vector 462 Extension support 463 464 ataflop= [HW,M68k] 465 466 atarimouse= [HW,MOUSE] Atari Mouse 467 468 atkbd.extra= [HW] Enable extra LEDs and keys on IBM RapidAccess, 469 EzKey and similar keyboards 470 471 atkbd.reset= [HW] Reset keyboard during initialization 472 473 atkbd.set= [HW] Select keyboard code set 474 Format: <int> (2 = AT (default), 3 = PS/2) 475 476 atkbd.scroll= [HW] Enable scroll wheel on MS Office and similar 477 keyboards 478 479 atkbd.softraw= [HW] Choose between synthetic and real raw mode 480 Format: <bool> (0 = real, 1 = synthetic (default)) 481 482 atkbd.softrepeat= [HW] 483 Use software keyboard repeat 484 485 audit= [KNL] Enable the audit sub-system 486 Format: { "0" | "1" | "off" | "on" } 487 0 | off - kernel audit is disabled and can not be 488 enabled until the next reboot 489 unset - kernel audit is initialized but disabled and 490 will be fully enabled by the userspace auditd. 491 1 | on - kernel audit is initialized and partially 492 enabled, storing at most audit_backlog_limit 493 messages in RAM until it is fully enabled by the 494 userspace auditd. 495 Default: unset 496 497 audit_backlog_limit= [KNL] Set the audit queue size limit. 498 Format: <int> (must be >=0) 499 Default: 64 500 501 bau= [X86_UV] Enable the BAU on SGI UV. The default 502 behavior is to disable the BAU (i.e. bau=0). 503 Format: { "0" | "1" } 504 0 - Disable the BAU. 505 1 - Enable the BAU. 506 unset - Disable the BAU. 507 508 baycom_epp= [HW,AX25] 509 Format: <io>,<mode> 510 511 baycom_par= [HW,AX25] BayCom Parallel Port AX.25 Modem 512 Format: <io>,<mode> 513 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_par.c. 514 515 baycom_ser_fdx= [HW,AX25] 516 BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Full Duplex Mode) 517 Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode>[,<baud>] 518 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_fdx.c. 519 520 baycom_ser_hdx= [HW,AX25] 521 BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem (Half Duplex Mode) 522 Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode> 523 See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_hdx.c. 524 525 bdev_allow_write_mounted= 526 Format: <bool> 527 Control the ability to open a mounted block device 528 for writing, i.e., allow / disallow writes that bypass 529 the FS. This was implemented as a means to prevent 530 fuzzers from crashing the kernel by overwriting the 531 metadata underneath a mounted FS without its awareness. 532 This also prevents destructive formatting of mounted 533 filesystems by naive storage tooling that don't use 534 O_EXCL. Default is Y and can be changed through the 535 Kconfig option CONFIG_BLK_DEV_WRITE_MOUNTED. 536 537 bert_disable [ACPI] 538 Disable BERT OS support on buggy BIOSes. 539 540 bgrt_disable [ACPI,X86,EARLY] 541 Disable BGRT to avoid flickering OEM logo. 542 543 blkdevparts= Manual partition parsing of block device(s) for 544 embedded devices based on command line input. 545 See Documentation/block/cmdline-partition.rst 546 547 boot_delay= [KNL,EARLY] 548 Milliseconds to delay each printk during boot. 549 Only works if CONFIG_BOOT_PRINTK_DELAY is enabled, 550 and you may also have to specify "lpj=". Boot_delay 551 values larger than 10 seconds (10000) are assumed 552 erroneous and ignored. 553 Format: integer 554 555 bootconfig [KNL,EARLY] 556 Extended command line options can be added to an initrd 557 and this will cause the kernel to look for it. 558 559 See Documentation/admin-guide/bootconfig.rst 560 561 bttv.card= [HW,V4L] bttv (bt848 + bt878 based grabber cards) 562 bttv.radio= Most important insmod options are available as 563 kernel args too. 564 bttv.pll= See Documentation/admin-guide/media/bttv.rst 565 bttv.tuner= 566 567 bulk_remove=off [PPC] This parameter disables the use of the pSeries 568 firmware feature for flushing multiple hpte entries 569 at a time. 570 571 c101= [NET] Moxa C101 synchronous serial card 572 573 cachesize= [BUGS=X86-32] Override level 2 CPU cache size detection. 574 Sometimes CPU hardware bugs make them report the cache 575 size incorrectly. The kernel will attempt work arounds 576 to fix known problems, but for some CPUs it is not 577 possible to determine what the correct size should be. 578 This option provides an override for these situations. 579 580 carrier_timeout= 581 [NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that 582 the kernel should wait for a network carrier. By default 583 it waits 120 seconds. 584 585 ca_keys= [KEYS] This parameter identifies a specific key(s) on 586 the system trusted keyring to be used for certificate 587 trust validation. 588 format: { id:<keyid> | builtin } 589 590 cca= [MIPS,EARLY] Override the kernel pages' cache coherency 591 algorithm. Accepted values range from 0 to 7 592 inclusive. See arch/mips/include/asm/pgtable-bits.h 593 for platform specific values (SB1, Loongson3 and 594 others). 595 596 ccw_timeout_log [S390] 597 See Documentation/arch/s390/common_io.rst for details. 598 599 cgroup_disable= [KNL] Disable a particular controller or optional feature 600 Format: {name of the controller(s) or feature(s) to disable} 601 The effects of cgroup_disable=foo are: 602 - foo isn't auto-mounted if you mount all cgroups in 603 a single hierarchy 604 - foo isn't visible as an individually mountable 605 subsystem 606 - if foo is an optional feature then the feature is 607 disabled and corresponding cgroup files are not 608 created 609 {Currently only "memory" controller deal with this and 610 cut the overhead, others just disable the usage. So 611 only cgroup_disable=memory is actually worthy} 612 Specifying "pressure" disables per-cgroup pressure 613 stall information accounting feature 614 615 cgroup_no_v1= [KNL] Disable cgroup controllers and named hierarchies in v1 616 Format: { { controller | "all" | "named" } 617 [,{ controller | "all" | "named" }...] } 618 Like cgroup_disable, but only applies to cgroup v1; 619 the blacklisted controllers remain available in cgroup2. 620 "all" blacklists all controllers and "named" disables 621 named mounts. Specifying both "all" and "named" disables 622 all v1 hierarchies. 623 624 cgroup_favordynmods= [KNL] Enable or Disable favordynmods. 625 Format: { "true" | "false" } 626 Defaults to the value of CONFIG_CGROUP_FAVOR_DYNMODS. 627 628 cgroup.memory= [KNL] Pass options to the cgroup memory controller. 629 Format: <string> 630 nosocket -- Disable socket memory accounting. 631 nokmem -- Disable kernel memory accounting. 632 nobpf -- Disable BPF memory accounting. 633 634 checkreqprot= [SELINUX] Set initial checkreqprot flag value. 635 Format: { "0" | "1" } 636 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text. 637 0 -- check protection applied by kernel (includes 638 any implied execute protection). 639 1 -- check protection requested by application. 640 Default value is set via a kernel config option. 641 Value can be changed at runtime via 642 /sys/fs/selinux/checkreqprot. 643 Setting checkreqprot to 1 is deprecated. 644 645 cio_ignore= [S390] 646 See Documentation/arch/s390/common_io.rst for details. 647 648 clearcpuid=X[,X...] [X86] 649 Disable CPUID feature X for the kernel. See 650 arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h for the valid bit 651 numbers X. Note the Linux-specific bits are not necessarily 652 stable over kernel options, but the vendor-specific 653 ones should be. 654 X can also be a string as appearing in the flags: line 655 in /proc/cpuinfo which does not have the above 656 instability issue. However, not all features have names 657 in /proc/cpuinfo. 658 Note that using this option will taint your kernel. 659 Also note that user programs calling CPUID directly 660 or using the feature without checking anything 661 will still see it. This just prevents it from 662 being used by the kernel or shown in /proc/cpuinfo. 663 Also note the kernel might malfunction if you disable 664 some critical bits. 665 666 clk_ignore_unused 667 [CLK] 668 Prevents the clock framework from automatically gating 669 clocks that have not been explicitly enabled by a Linux 670 device driver but are enabled in hardware at reset or 671 by the bootloader/firmware. Note that this does not 672 force such clocks to be always-on nor does it reserve 673 those clocks in any way. This parameter is useful for 674 debug and development, but should not be needed on a 675 platform with proper driver support. For more 676 information, see Documentation/driver-api/clk.rst. 677 678 clock= [BUGS=X86-32, HW] gettimeofday clocksource override. 679 [Deprecated] 680 Forces specified clocksource (if available) to be used 681 when calculating gettimeofday(). If specified 682 clocksource is not available, it defaults to PIT. 683 Format: { pit | tsc | cyclone | pmtmr } 684 685 clocksource= Override the default clocksource 686 Format: <string> 687 Override the default clocksource and use the clocksource 688 with the name specified. 689 Some clocksource names to choose from, depending on 690 the platform: 691 [all] jiffies (this is the base, fallback clocksource) 692 [ACPI] acpi_pm 693 [ARM] imx_timer1,OSTS,netx_timer,mpu_timer2, 694 pxa_timer,timer3,32k_counter,timer0_1 695 [X86-32] pit,hpet,tsc; 696 scx200_hrt on Geode; cyclone on IBM x440 697 [MIPS] MIPS 698 [PARISC] cr16 699 [S390] tod 700 [SH] SuperH 701 [SPARC64] tick 702 [X86-64] hpet,tsc 703 704 clocksource.arm_arch_timer.evtstrm= 705 [ARM,ARM64,EARLY] 706 Format: <bool> 707 Enable/disable the eventstream feature of the ARM 708 architected timer so that code using WFE-based polling 709 loops can be debugged more effectively on production 710 systems. 711 712 clocksource.verify_n_cpus= [KNL] 713 Limit the number of CPUs checked for clocksources 714 marked with CLOCK_SOURCE_VERIFY_PERCPU that 715 are marked unstable due to excessive skew. 716 A negative value says to check all CPUs, while 717 zero says not to check any. Values larger than 718 nr_cpu_ids are silently truncated to nr_cpu_ids. 719 The actual CPUs are chosen randomly, with 720 no replacement if the same CPU is chosen twice. 721 722 clocksource-wdtest.holdoff= [KNL] 723 Set the time in seconds that the clocksource 724 watchdog test waits before commencing its tests. 725 Defaults to zero when built as a module and to 726 10 seconds when built into the kernel. 727 728 cma=nn[MG]@[start[MG][-end[MG]]] 729 [KNL,CMA,EARLY] 730 Sets the size of kernel global memory area for 731 contiguous memory allocations and optionally the 732 placement constraint by the physical address range of 733 memory allocations. A value of 0 disables CMA 734 altogether. For more information, see 735 kernel/dma/contiguous.c 736 737 cma_pernuma=nn[MG] 738 [KNL,CMA,EARLY] 739 Sets the size of kernel per-numa memory area for 740 contiguous memory allocations. A value of 0 disables 741 per-numa CMA altogether. And If this option is not 742 specified, the default value is 0. 743 With per-numa CMA enabled, DMA users on node nid will 744 first try to allocate buffer from the pernuma area 745 which is located in node nid, if the allocation fails, 746 they will fallback to the global default memory area. 747 748 numa_cma=<node>:nn[MG][,<node>:nn[MG]] 749 [KNL,CMA,EARLY] 750 Sets the size of kernel numa memory area for 751 contiguous memory allocations. It will reserve CMA 752 area for the specified node. 753 754 With numa CMA enabled, DMA users on node nid will 755 first try to allocate buffer from the numa area 756 which is located in node nid, if the allocation fails, 757 they will fallback to the global default memory area. 758 759 cmo_free_hint= [PPC] Format: { yes | no } 760 Specify whether pages are marked as being inactive 761 when they are freed. This is used in CMO environments 762 to determine OS memory pressure for page stealing by 763 a hypervisor. 764 Default: yes 765 766 coherent_pool=nn[KMG] [ARM,KNL,EARLY] 767 Sets the size of memory pool for coherent, atomic dma 768 allocations, by default set to 256K. 769 770 com20020= [HW,NET] ARCnet - COM20020 chipset 771 Format: 772 <io>[,<irq>[,<nodeID>[,<backplane>[,<ckp>[,<timeout>]]]]] 773 774 com90io= [HW,NET] ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (IO-mapped buffers) 775 Format: <io>[,<irq>] 776 777 com90xx= [HW,NET] 778 ARCnet - COM90xx chipset (memory-mapped buffers) 779 Format: <io>[,<irq>[,<memstart>]] 780 781 condev= [HW,S390] console device 782 conmode= 783 784 con3215_drop= [S390,EARLY] 3215 console drop mode. 785 Format: y|n|Y|N|1|0 786 When set to true, drop data on the 3215 console when 787 the console buffer is full. In this case the 788 operator using a 3270 terminal emulator (for example 789 x3270) does not have to enter the clear key for the 790 console output to advance and the kernel to continue. 791 This leads to a much faster boot time when a 3270 792 terminal emulator is active. If no 3270 terminal 793 emulator is used, this parameter has no effect. 794 795 console= [KNL] Output console device and options. 796 797 tty<n> Use the virtual console device <n>. 798 799 ttyS<n>[,options] 800 ttyUSB0[,options] 801 Use the specified serial port. The options are of 802 the form "bbbbpnf", where "bbbb" is the baud rate, 803 "p" is parity ("n", "o", or "e"), "n" is number of 804 bits, and "f" is flow control ("r" for RTS or 805 omit it). Default is "9600n8". 806 807 See Documentation/admin-guide/serial-console.rst for more 808 information. See 809 Documentation/networking/netconsole.rst for an 810 alternative. 811 812 <DEVNAME>:<n>.<n>[,options] 813 Use the specified serial port on the serial core bus. 814 The addressing uses DEVNAME of the physical serial port 815 device, followed by the serial core controller instance, 816 and the serial port instance. The options are the same 817 as documented for the ttyS addressing above. 818 819 The mapping of the serial ports to the tty instances 820 can be viewed with: 821 822 $ ls -d /sys/bus/serial-base/devices/*:*.*/tty/* 823 /sys/bus/serial-base/devices/00:04:0.0/tty/ttyS0 824 825 In the above example, the console can be addressed with 826 console=00:04:0.0. Note that a console addressed this 827 way will only get added when the related device driver 828 is ready. The use of an earlycon parameter in addition to 829 the console may be desired for console output early on. 830 831 uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options] 832 uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options] 833 uart[8250],mmio16,<addr>[,options] 834 uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options] 835 uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options] 836 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550 837 UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address, 838 switching to the matching ttyS device later. 839 MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit 840 (mmio), 16-bit (mmio16), or 32-bit (mmio32). 841 If none of [io|mmio|mmio16|mmio32], <addr> is assumed 842 to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified in 843 the same format described for ttyS above; if unspecified, 844 the h/w is not re-initialized. 845 846 hvc<n> Use the hypervisor console device <n>. This is for 847 both Xen and PowerPC hypervisors. 848 849 { null | "" } 850 Use to disable console output, i.e., to have kernel 851 console messages discarded. 852 This must be the only console= parameter used on the 853 kernel command line. 854 855 If the device connected to the port is not a TTY but a braille 856 device, prepend "brl," before the device type, for instance 857 console=brl,ttyS0 858 For now, only VisioBraille is supported. 859 860 console_msg_format= 861 [KNL] Change console messages format 862 default 863 By default we print messages on consoles in 864 "[time stamp] text\n" format (time stamp may not be 865 printed, depending on CONFIG_PRINTK_TIME or 866 `printk_time' param). 867 syslog 868 Switch to syslog format: "<%u>[time stamp] text\n" 869 IOW, each message will have a facility and loglevel 870 prefix. The format is similar to one used by syslog() 871 syscall, or to executing "dmesg -S --raw" or to reading 872 from /proc/kmsg. 873 874 consoleblank= [KNL] The console blank (screen saver) timeout in 875 seconds. A value of 0 disables the blank timer. 876 Defaults to 0. 877 878 coredump_filter= 879 [KNL] Change the default value for 880 /proc/<pid>/coredump_filter. 881 See also Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst. 882 883 coresight_cpu_debug.enable 884 [ARM,ARM64] 885 Format: <bool> 886 Enable/disable the CPU sampling based debugging. 887 0: default value, disable debugging 888 1: enable debugging at boot time 889 890 cpcihp_generic= [HW,PCI] Generic port I/O CompactPCI driver 891 Format: 892 <first_slot>,<last_slot>,<port>,<enum_bit>[,<debug>] 893 894 cpuidle.off=1 [CPU_IDLE] 895 disable the cpuidle sub-system 896 897 cpuidle.governor= 898 [CPU_IDLE] Name of the cpuidle governor to use. 899 900 cpufreq.off=1 [CPU_FREQ] 901 disable the cpufreq sub-system 902 903 cpufreq.default_governor= 904 [CPU_FREQ] Name of the default cpufreq governor or 905 policy to use. This governor must be registered in the 906 kernel before the cpufreq driver probes. 907 908 cpu_init_udelay=N 909 [X86,EARLY] Delay for N microsec between assert and de-assert 910 of APIC INIT to start processors. This delay occurs 911 on every CPU online, such as boot, and resume from suspend. 912 Default: 10000 913 914 cpuhp.parallel= 915 [SMP] Enable/disable parallel bringup of secondary CPUs 916 Format: <bool> 917 Default is enabled if CONFIG_HOTPLUG_PARALLEL=y. Otherwise 918 the parameter has no effect. 919 920 crash_kexec_post_notifiers 921 Run kdump after running panic-notifiers and dumping 922 kmsg. This only for the users who doubt kdump always 923 succeeds in any situation. 924 Note that this also increases risks of kdump failure, 925 because some panic notifiers can make the crashed 926 kernel more unstable. 927 928 crashkernel=size[KMG][@offset[KMG]] 929 [KNL,EARLY] Using kexec, Linux can switch to a 'crash kernel' 930 upon panic. This parameter reserves the physical 931 memory region [offset, offset + size] for that kernel 932 image. If '@offset' is omitted, then a suitable offset 933 is selected automatically. 934 [KNL, X86-64, ARM64, RISCV, LoongArch] Select a region 935 under 4G first, and fall back to reserve region above 936 4G when '@offset' hasn't been specified. 937 See Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for further details. 938 939 crashkernel=range1:size1[,range2:size2,...][@offset] 940 [KNL] Same as above, but depends on the memory 941 in the running system. The syntax of range is 942 start-[end] where start and end are both 943 a memory unit (amount[KMG]). See also 944 Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for an example. 945 946 crashkernel=size[KMG],high 947 [KNL, X86-64, ARM64, RISCV, LoongArch] range could be 948 above 4G. 949 Allow kernel to allocate physical memory region from top, 950 so could be above 4G if system have more than 4G ram 951 installed. Otherwise memory region will be allocated 952 below 4G, if available. 953 It will be ignored if crashkernel=X is specified. 954 crashkernel=size[KMG],low 955 [KNL, X86-64, ARM64, RISCV, LoongArch] range under 4G. 956 When crashkernel=X,high is passed, kernel could allocate 957 physical memory region above 4G, that cause second kernel 958 crash on system that require some amount of low memory, 959 e.g. swiotlb requires at least 64M+32K low memory, also 960 enough extra low memory is needed to make sure DMA buffers 961 for 32-bit devices won't run out. Kernel would try to allocate 962 default size of memory below 4G automatically. The default 963 size is platform dependent. 964 --> x86: max(swiotlb_size_or_default() + 8MiB, 256MiB) 965 --> arm64: 128MiB 966 --> riscv: 128MiB 967 --> loongarch: 128MiB 968 This one lets the user specify own low range under 4G 969 for second kernel instead. 970 0: to disable low allocation. 971 It will be ignored when crashkernel=X,high is not used 972 or memory reserved is below 4G. 973 974 cryptomgr.notests 975 [KNL] Disable crypto self-tests 976 977 cs89x0_dma= [HW,NET] 978 Format: <dma> 979 980 cs89x0_media= [HW,NET] 981 Format: { rj45 | aui | bnc } 982 983 csdlock_debug= [KNL] Enable or disable debug add-ons of cross-CPU 984 function call handling. When switched on, 985 additional debug data is printed to the console 986 in case a hanging CPU is detected, and that 987 CPU is pinged again in order to try to resolve 988 the hang situation. The default value of this 989 option depends on the CSD_LOCK_WAIT_DEBUG_DEFAULT 990 Kconfig option. 991 992 dasd= [HW,NET] 993 See header of drivers/s390/block/dasd_devmap.c. 994 995 db9.dev[2|3]= [HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick support via parallel port 996 (one device per port) 997 Format: <port#>,<type> 998 See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst 999 1000 debug [KNL,EARLY] Enable kernel debugging (events log level). 1001 1002 debug_boot_weak_hash 1003 [KNL,EARLY] Enable printing [hashed] pointers early in the 1004 boot sequence. If enabled, we use a weak hash instead 1005 of siphash to hash pointers. Use this option if you are 1006 seeing instances of '(___ptrval___)') and need to see a 1007 value (hashed pointer) instead. Cryptographically 1008 insecure, please do not use on production kernels. 1009 1010 debug_locks_verbose= 1011 [KNL] verbose locking self-tests 1012 Format: <int> 1013 Print debugging info while doing the locking API 1014 self-tests. 1015 Bitmask for the various LOCKTYPE_ tests. Defaults to 0 1016 (no extra messages), setting it to -1 (all bits set) 1017 will print _a_lot_ more information - normally only 1018 useful to lockdep developers. 1019 1020 debug_objects [KNL,EARLY] Enable object debugging 1021 1022 debug_guardpage_minorder= 1023 [KNL,EARLY] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this 1024 parameter allows control of the order of pages that will 1025 be intentionally kept free (and hence protected) by the 1026 buddy allocator. Bigger value increase the probability 1027 of catching random memory corruption, but reduce the 1028 amount of memory for normal system use. The maximum 1029 possible value is MAX_PAGE_ORDER/2. Setting this 1030 parameter to 1 or 2 should be enough to identify most 1031 random memory corruption problems caused by bugs in 1032 kernel or driver code when a CPU writes to (or reads 1033 from) a random memory location. Note that there exists 1034 a class of memory corruptions problems caused by buggy 1035 H/W or F/W or by drivers badly programming DMA 1036 (basically when memory is written at bus level and the 1037 CPU MMU is bypassed) which are not detectable by 1038 CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC, hence this option will not 1039 help tracking down these problems. 1040 1041 debug_pagealloc= 1042 [KNL,EARLY] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this parameter 1043 enables the feature at boot time. By default, it is 1044 disabled and the system will work mostly the same as a 1045 kernel built without CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC. 1046 Note: to get most of debug_pagealloc error reports, it's 1047 useful to also enable the page_owner functionality. 1048 on: enable the feature 1049 1050 debugfs= [KNL,EARLY] This parameter enables what is exposed to 1051 userspace and debugfs internal clients. 1052 Format: { on, no-mount, off } 1053 on: All functions are enabled. 1054 no-mount: 1055 Filesystem is not registered but kernel clients can 1056 access APIs and a crashkernel can be used to read 1057 its content. There is nothing to mount. 1058 off: Filesystem is not registered and clients 1059 get a -EPERM as result when trying to register files 1060 or directories within debugfs. 1061 This is equivalent of the runtime functionality if 1062 debugfs was not enabled in the kernel at all. 1063 Default value is set in build-time with a kernel configuration. 1064 1065 debugpat [X86] Enable PAT debugging 1066 1067 default_hugepagesz= 1068 [HW] The size of the default HugeTLB page. This is 1069 the size represented by the legacy /proc/ hugepages 1070 APIs. In addition, this is the default hugetlb size 1071 used for shmget(), mmap() and mounting hugetlbfs 1072 filesystems. If not specified, defaults to the 1073 architecture's default huge page size. Huge page 1074 sizes are architecture dependent. See also 1075 Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst. 1076 Format: size[KMG] 1077 1078 deferred_probe_timeout= 1079 [KNL] Debugging option to set a timeout in seconds for 1080 deferred probe to give up waiting on dependencies to 1081 probe. Only specific dependencies (subsystems or 1082 drivers) that have opted in will be ignored. A timeout 1083 of 0 will timeout at the end of initcalls. If the time 1084 out hasn't expired, it'll be restarted by each 1085 successful driver registration. This option will also 1086 dump out devices still on the deferred probe list after 1087 retrying. 1088 1089 delayacct [KNL] Enable per-task delay accounting 1090 1091 dell_smm_hwmon.ignore_dmi= 1092 [HW] Continue probing hardware even if DMI data 1093 indicates that the driver is running on unsupported 1094 hardware. 1095 1096 dell_smm_hwmon.force= 1097 [HW] Activate driver even if SMM BIOS signature does 1098 not match list of supported models and enable otherwise 1099 blacklisted features. 1100 1101 dell_smm_hwmon.power_status= 1102 [HW] Report power status in /proc/i8k 1103 (disabled by default). 1104 1105 dell_smm_hwmon.restricted= 1106 [HW] Allow controlling fans only if SYS_ADMIN 1107 capability is set. 1108 1109 dell_smm_hwmon.fan_mult= 1110 [HW] Factor to multiply fan speed with. 1111 1112 dell_smm_hwmon.fan_max= 1113 [HW] Maximum configurable fan speed. 1114 1115 dfltcc= [HW,S390] 1116 Format: { on | off | def_only | inf_only | always } 1117 on: s390 zlib hardware support for compression on 1118 level 1 and decompression (default) 1119 off: No s390 zlib hardware support 1120 def_only: s390 zlib hardware support for deflate 1121 only (compression on level 1) 1122 inf_only: s390 zlib hardware support for inflate 1123 only (decompression) 1124 always: Same as 'on' but ignores the selected compression 1125 level always using hardware support (used for debugging) 1126 1127 dhash_entries= [KNL] 1128 Set number of hash buckets for dentry cache. 1129 1130 disable_1tb_segments [PPC,EARLY] 1131 Disables the use of 1TB hash page table segments. This 1132 causes the kernel to fall back to 256MB segments which 1133 can be useful when debugging issues that require an SLB 1134 miss to occur. 1135 1136 disable= [IPV6] 1137 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.rst. 1138 1139 disable_radix [PPC,EARLY] 1140 Disable RADIX MMU mode on POWER9 1141 1142 disable_tlbie [PPC] 1143 Disable TLBIE instruction. Currently does not work 1144 with KVM, with HASH MMU, or with coherent accelerators. 1145 1146 disable_ddw [PPC/PSERIES,EARLY] 1147 Disable Dynamic DMA Window support. Use this 1148 to workaround buggy firmware. 1149 1150 disable_ipv6= [IPV6] 1151 See Documentation/networking/ipv6.rst. 1152 1153 disable_mtrr_cleanup [X86,EARLY] 1154 The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous 1155 to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB 1156 entry later. This parameter disables that. 1157 1158 disable_mtrr_trim [X86, Intel and AMD only,EARLY] 1159 By default the kernel will trim any uncacheable 1160 memory out of your available memory pool based on 1161 MTRR settings. This parameter disables that behavior, 1162 possibly causing your machine to run very slowly. 1163 1164 disable_timer_pin_1 [X86,EARLY] 1165 Disable PIN 1 of APIC timer 1166 Can be useful to work around chipset bugs. 1167 1168 dis_ucode_ldr [X86] Disable the microcode loader. 1169 1170 dma_debug=off If the kernel is compiled with DMA_API_DEBUG support, 1171 this option disables the debugging code at boot. 1172 1173 dma_debug_entries=<number> 1174 This option allows to tune the number of preallocated 1175 entries for DMA-API debugging code. One entry is 1176 required per DMA-API allocation. Use this if the 1177 DMA-API debugging code disables itself because the 1178 architectural default is too low. 1179 1180 dma_debug_driver=<driver_name> 1181 With this option the DMA-API debugging driver 1182 filter feature can be enabled at boot time. Just 1183 pass the driver to filter for as the parameter. 1184 The filter can be disabled or changed to another 1185 driver later using sysfs. 1186 1187 reg_file_data_sampling= 1188 [X86] Controls mitigation for Register File Data 1189 Sampling (RFDS) vulnerability. RFDS is a CPU 1190 vulnerability which may allow userspace to infer 1191 kernel data values previously stored in floating point 1192 registers, vector registers, or integer registers. 1193 RFDS only affects Intel Atom processors. 1194 1195 on: Turns ON the mitigation. 1196 off: Turns OFF the mitigation. 1197 1198 This parameter overrides the compile time default set 1199 by CONFIG_MITIGATION_RFDS. Mitigation cannot be 1200 disabled when other VERW based mitigations (like MDS) 1201 are enabled. In order to disable RFDS mitigation all 1202 VERW based mitigations need to be disabled. 1203 1204 For details see: 1205 Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/reg-file-data-sampling.rst 1206 1207 driver_async_probe= [KNL] 1208 List of driver names to be probed asynchronously. * 1209 matches with all driver names. If * is specified, the 1210 rest of the listed driver names are those that will NOT 1211 match the *. 1212 Format: <driver_name1>,<driver_name2>... 1213 1214 drm.edid_firmware=[<connector>:]<file>[,[<connector>:]<file>] 1215 Broken monitors, graphic adapters, KVMs and EDIDless 1216 panels may send no or incorrect EDID data sets. 1217 This parameter allows to specify an EDID data sets 1218 in the /lib/firmware directory that are used instead. 1219 An EDID data set will only be used for a particular 1220 connector, if its name and a colon are prepended to 1221 the EDID name. Each connector may use a unique EDID 1222 data set by separating the files with a comma. An EDID 1223 data set with no connector name will be used for 1224 any connectors not explicitly specified. 1225 1226 dscc4.setup= [NET] 1227 1228 dt_cpu_ftrs= [PPC,EARLY] 1229 Format: {"off" | "known"} 1230 Control how the dt_cpu_ftrs device-tree binding is 1231 used for CPU feature discovery and setup (if it 1232 exists). 1233 off: Do not use it, fall back to legacy cpu table. 1234 known: Do not pass through unknown features to guests 1235 or userspace, only those that the kernel is aware of. 1236 1237 dump_apple_properties [X86] 1238 Dump name and content of EFI device properties on 1239 x86 Macs. Useful for driver authors to determine 1240 what data is available or for reverse-engineering. 1241 1242 dyndbg[="val"] [KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG] 1243 <module>.dyndbg[="val"] 1244 Enable debug messages at boot time. See 1245 Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst 1246 for details. 1247 1248 early_ioremap_debug [KNL,EARLY] 1249 Enable debug messages in early_ioremap support. This 1250 is useful for tracking down temporary early mappings 1251 which are not unmapped. 1252 1253 earlycon= [KNL,EARLY] Output early console device and options. 1254 1255 When used with no options, the early console is 1256 determined by stdout-path property in device tree's 1257 chosen node or the ACPI SPCR table if supported by 1258 the platform. 1259 1260 cdns,<addr>[,options] 1261 Start an early, polled-mode console on a Cadence 1262 (xuartps) serial port at the specified address. Only 1263 supported option is baud rate. If baud rate is not 1264 specified, the serial port must already be setup and 1265 configured. 1266 1267 uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options[,uartclk]] 1268 uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options[,uartclk]] 1269 uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options[,uartclk]] 1270 uart[8250],mmio32be,<addr>[,options[,uartclk]] 1271 uart[8250],0x<addr>[,options] 1272 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550 1273 UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address. 1274 MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit 1275 (mmio) or 32-bit (mmio32 or mmio32be). 1276 If none of [io|mmio|mmio32|mmio32be], <addr> is assumed 1277 to be equivalent to 'mmio'. 'options' are specified 1278 in the same format described for "console=ttyS<n>"; if 1279 unspecified, the h/w is not initialized. 'uartclk' is 1280 the uart clock frequency; if unspecified, it is set 1281 to 'BASE_BAUD' * 16. 1282 1283 pl011,<addr> 1284 pl011,mmio32,<addr> 1285 Start an early, polled-mode console on a pl011 serial 1286 port at the specified address. The pl011 serial port 1287 must already be setup and configured. Options are not 1288 yet supported. If 'mmio32' is specified, then only 1289 the driver will use only 32-bit accessors to read/write 1290 the device registers. 1291 1292 liteuart,<addr> 1293 Start an early console on a litex serial port at the 1294 specified address. The serial port must already be 1295 setup and configured. Options are not yet supported. 1296 1297 meson,<addr> 1298 Start an early, polled-mode console on a meson serial 1299 port at the specified address. The serial port must 1300 already be setup and configured. Options are not yet 1301 supported. 1302 1303 msm_serial,<addr> 1304 Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial 1305 port at the specified address. The serial port 1306 must already be setup and configured. Options are not 1307 yet supported. 1308 1309 msm_serial_dm,<addr> 1310 Start an early, polled-mode console on an msm serial 1311 dm port at the specified address. The serial port 1312 must already be setup and configured. Options are not 1313 yet supported. 1314 1315 owl,<addr> 1316 Start an early, polled-mode console on a serial port 1317 of an Actions Semi SoC, such as S500 or S900, at the 1318 specified address. The serial port must already be 1319 setup and configured. Options are not yet supported. 1320 1321 rda,<addr> 1322 Start an early, polled-mode console on a serial port 1323 of an RDA Micro SoC, such as RDA8810PL, at the 1324 specified address. The serial port must already be 1325 setup and configured. Options are not yet supported. 1326 1327 sbi 1328 Use RISC-V SBI (Supervisor Binary Interface) for early 1329 console. 1330 1331 smh Use ARM semihosting calls for early console. 1332 1333 s3c2410,<addr> 1334 s3c2412,<addr> 1335 s3c2440,<addr> 1336 s3c6400,<addr> 1337 s5pv210,<addr> 1338 exynos4210,<addr> 1339 Use early console provided by serial driver available 1340 on Samsung SoCs, requires selecting proper type and 1341 a correct base address of the selected UART port. The 1342 serial port must already be setup and configured. 1343 Options are not yet supported. 1344 1345 lantiq,<addr> 1346 Start an early, polled-mode console on a lantiq serial 1347 (lqasc) port at the specified address. The serial port 1348 must already be setup and configured. Options are not 1349 yet supported. 1350 1351 lpuart,<addr> 1352 lpuart32,<addr> 1353 Use early console provided by Freescale LP UART driver 1354 found on Freescale Vybrid and QorIQ LS1021A processors. 1355 A valid base address must be provided, and the serial 1356 port must already be setup and configured. 1357 1358 ec_imx21,<addr> 1359 ec_imx6q,<addr> 1360 Start an early, polled-mode, output-only console on the 1361 Freescale i.MX UART at the specified address. The UART 1362 must already be setup and configured. 1363 1364 ar3700_uart,<addr> 1365 Start an early, polled-mode console on the 1366 Armada 3700 serial port at the specified 1367 address. The serial port must already be setup 1368 and configured. Options are not yet supported. 1369 1370 qcom_geni,<addr> 1371 Start an early, polled-mode console on a Qualcomm 1372 Generic Interface (GENI) based serial port at the 1373 specified address. The serial port must already be 1374 setup and configured. Options are not yet supported. 1375 1376 efifb,[options] 1377 Start an early, unaccelerated console on the EFI 1378 memory mapped framebuffer (if available). On cache 1379 coherent non-x86 systems that use system memory for 1380 the framebuffer, pass the 'ram' option so that it is 1381 mapped with the correct attributes. 1382 1383 linflex,<addr> 1384 Use early console provided by Freescale LINFlexD UART 1385 serial driver for NXP S32V234 SoCs. A valid base 1386 address must be provided, and the serial port must 1387 already be setup and configured. 1388 1389 earlyprintk= [X86,SH,ARM,M68k,S390,UM,EARLY] 1390 earlyprintk=vga 1391 earlyprintk=sclp 1392 earlyprintk=xen 1393 earlyprintk=serial[,ttySn[,baudrate]] 1394 earlyprintk=serial[,0x...[,baudrate]] 1395 earlyprintk=ttySn[,baudrate] 1396 earlyprintk=dbgp[debugController#] 1397 earlyprintk=pciserial[,force],bus:device.function[,baudrate] 1398 earlyprintk=xdbc[xhciController#] 1399 earlyprintk=bios 1400 1401 earlyprintk is useful when the kernel crashes before 1402 the normal console is initialized. It is not enabled by 1403 default because it has some cosmetic problems. 1404 1405 Append ",keep" to not disable it when the real console 1406 takes over. 1407 1408 Only one of vga, serial, or usb debug port can 1409 be used at a time. 1410 1411 Currently only ttyS0 and ttyS1 may be specified by 1412 name. Other I/O ports may be explicitly specified 1413 on some architectures (x86 and arm at least) by 1414 replacing ttySn with an I/O port address, like this: 1415 earlyprintk=serial,0x1008,115200 1416 You can find the port for a given device in 1417 /proc/tty/driver/serial: 1418 2: uart:ST16650V2 port:00001008 irq:18 ... 1419 1420 Interaction with the standard serial driver is not 1421 very good. 1422 1423 The VGA output is eventually overwritten by 1424 the real console. 1425 1426 The xen option can only be used in Xen domains. 1427 1428 The sclp output can only be used on s390. 1429 1430 The bios output can only be used on SuperH. 1431 1432 The optional "force" to "pciserial" enables use of a 1433 PCI device even when its classcode is not of the 1434 UART class. 1435 1436 edac_report= [HW,EDAC] Control how to report EDAC event 1437 Format: {"on" | "off" | "force"} 1438 on: enable EDAC to report H/W event. May be overridden 1439 by other higher priority error reporting module. 1440 off: disable H/W event reporting through EDAC. 1441 force: enforce the use of EDAC to report H/W event. 1442 default: on. 1443 1444 edd= [EDD] 1445 Format: {"off" | "on" | "skip[mbr]"} 1446 1447 efi= [EFI,EARLY] 1448 Format: { "debug", "disable_early_pci_dma", 1449 "nochunk", "noruntime", "nosoftreserve", 1450 "novamap", "no_disable_early_pci_dma" } 1451 debug: enable misc debug output. 1452 disable_early_pci_dma: disable the busmaster bit on all 1453 PCI bridges while in the EFI boot stub. 1454 nochunk: disable reading files in "chunks" in the EFI 1455 boot stub, as chunking can cause problems with some 1456 firmware implementations. 1457 noruntime : disable EFI runtime services support 1458 nosoftreserve: The EFI_MEMORY_SP (Specific Purpose) 1459 attribute may cause the kernel to reserve the 1460 memory range for a memory mapping driver to 1461 claim. Specify efi=nosoftreserve to disable this 1462 reservation and treat the memory by its base type 1463 (i.e. EFI_CONVENTIONAL_MEMORY / "System RAM"). 1464 novamap: do not call SetVirtualAddressMap(). 1465 no_disable_early_pci_dma: Leave the busmaster bit set 1466 on all PCI bridges while in the EFI boot stub 1467 1468 efi_no_storage_paranoia [EFI,X86,EARLY] 1469 Using this parameter you can use more than 50% of 1470 your efi variable storage. Use this parameter only if 1471 you are really sure that your UEFI does sane gc and 1472 fulfills the spec otherwise your board may brick. 1473 1474 efivar_ssdt= [EFI; X86] Name of an EFI variable that contains an SSDT 1475 that is to be dynamically loaded by Linux. If there are 1476 multiple variables with the same name but with different 1477 vendor GUIDs, all of them will be loaded. See 1478 Documentation/admin-guide/acpi/ssdt-overlays.rst for details. 1479 1480 1481 eisa_irq_edge= [PARISC,HW] 1482 See header of drivers/parisc/eisa.c. 1483 1484 ekgdboc= [X86,KGDB,EARLY] Allow early kernel console debugging 1485 Format: ekgdboc=kbd 1486 1487 This is designed to be used in conjunction with 1488 the boot argument: earlyprintk=vga 1489 1490 This parameter works in place of the kgdboc parameter 1491 but can only be used if the backing tty is available 1492 very early in the boot process. For early debugging 1493 via a serial port see kgdboc_earlycon instead. 1494 1495 elanfreq= [X86-32] 1496 See comment before function elanfreq_setup() in 1497 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/elanfreq.c. 1498 1499 elfcorehdr=[size[KMG]@]offset[KMG] [PPC,SH,X86,S390,EARLY] 1500 Specifies physical address of start of kernel core 1501 image elf header and optionally the size. Generally 1502 kexec loader will pass this option to capture kernel. 1503 See Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst for details. 1504 1505 enable_mtrr_cleanup [X86,EARLY] 1506 The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous 1507 to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB 1508 entry later. This parameter enables that. 1509 1510 enable_timer_pin_1 [X86] 1511 Enable PIN 1 of APIC timer 1512 Can be useful to work around chipset bugs 1513 (in particular on some ATI chipsets). 1514 The kernel tries to set a reasonable default. 1515 1516 enforcing= [SELINUX] Set initial enforcing status. 1517 Format: {"0" | "1"} 1518 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text. 1519 0 -- permissive (log only, no denials). 1520 1 -- enforcing (deny and log). 1521 Default value is 0. 1522 Value can be changed at runtime via 1523 /sys/fs/selinux/enforce. 1524 1525 erst_disable [ACPI] 1526 Disable Error Record Serialization Table (ERST) 1527 support. 1528 1529 ether= [HW,NET] Ethernet cards parameters 1530 This option is obsoleted by the "netdev=" option, which 1531 has equivalent usage. See its documentation for details. 1532 1533 evm= [EVM] 1534 Format: { "fix" } 1535 Permit 'security.evm' to be updated regardless of 1536 current integrity status. 1537 1538 early_page_ext [KNL,EARLY] Enforces page_ext initialization to earlier 1539 stages so cover more early boot allocations. 1540 Please note that as side effect some optimizations 1541 might be disabled to achieve that (e.g. parallelized 1542 memory initialization is disabled) so the boot process 1543 might take longer, especially on systems with a lot of 1544 memory. Available with CONFIG_PAGE_EXTENSION=y. 1545 1546 failslab= 1547 fail_usercopy= 1548 fail_page_alloc= 1549 fail_make_request=[KNL] 1550 General fault injection mechanism. 1551 Format: <interval>,<probability>,<space>,<times> 1552 See also Documentation/fault-injection/. 1553 1554 fb_tunnels= [NET] 1555 Format: { initns | none } 1556 See Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/net.rst for 1557 fb_tunnels_only_for_init_ns 1558 1559 floppy= [HW] 1560 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/floppy.rst. 1561 1562 forcepae [X86-32] 1563 Forcefully enable Physical Address Extension (PAE). 1564 Many Pentium M systems disable PAE but may have a 1565 functionally usable PAE implementation. 1566 Warning: use of this parameter will taint the kernel 1567 and may cause unknown problems. 1568 1569 fred= [X86-64] 1570 Enable/disable Flexible Return and Event Delivery. 1571 Format: { on | off } 1572 on: enable FRED when it's present. 1573 off: disable FRED, the default setting. 1574 1575 ftrace=[tracer] 1576 [FTRACE] will set and start the specified tracer 1577 as early as possible in order to facilitate early 1578 boot debugging. 1579 1580 ftrace_boot_snapshot 1581 [FTRACE] On boot up, a snapshot will be taken of the 1582 ftrace ring buffer that can be read at: 1583 /sys/kernel/tracing/snapshot. 1584 This is useful if you need tracing information from kernel 1585 boot up that is likely to be overridden by user space 1586 start up functionality. 1587 1588 Optionally, the snapshot can also be defined for a tracing 1589 instance that was created by the trace_instance= command 1590 line parameter. 1591 1592 trace_instance=foo,sched_switch ftrace_boot_snapshot=foo 1593 1594 The above will cause the "foo" tracing instance to trigger 1595 a snapshot at the end of boot up. 1596 1597 ftrace_dump_on_oops[=2(orig_cpu) | =<instance>][,<instance> | 1598 ,<instance>=2(orig_cpu)] 1599 [FTRACE] will dump the trace buffers on oops. 1600 If no parameter is passed, ftrace will dump global 1601 buffers of all CPUs, if you pass 2 or orig_cpu, it 1602 will dump only the buffer of the CPU that triggered 1603 the oops, or the specific instance will be dumped if 1604 its name is passed. Multiple instance dump is also 1605 supported, and instances are separated by commas. Each 1606 instance supports only dump on CPU that triggered the 1607 oops by passing 2 or orig_cpu to it. 1608 1609 ftrace_dump_on_oops=foo=orig_cpu 1610 1611 The above will dump only the buffer of "foo" instance 1612 on CPU that triggered the oops. 1613 1614 ftrace_dump_on_oops,foo,bar=orig_cpu 1615 1616 The above will dump global buffer on all CPUs, the 1617 buffer of "foo" instance on all CPUs and the buffer 1618 of "bar" instance on CPU that triggered the oops. 1619 1620 ftrace_filter=[function-list] 1621 [FTRACE] Limit the functions traced by the function 1622 tracer at boot up. function-list is a comma-separated 1623 list of functions. This list can be changed at run 1624 time by the set_ftrace_filter file in the debugfs 1625 tracing directory. 1626 1627 ftrace_notrace=[function-list] 1628 [FTRACE] Do not trace the functions specified in 1629 function-list. This list can be changed at run time 1630 by the set_ftrace_notrace file in the debugfs 1631 tracing directory. 1632 1633 ftrace_graph_filter=[function-list] 1634 [FTRACE] Limit the top level callers functions traced 1635 by the function graph tracer at boot up. 1636 function-list is a comma-separated list of functions 1637 that can be changed at run time by the 1638 set_graph_function file in the debugfs tracing directory. 1639 1640 ftrace_graph_notrace=[function-list] 1641 [FTRACE] Do not trace from the functions specified in 1642 function-list. This list is a comma-separated list of 1643 functions that can be changed at run time by the 1644 set_graph_notrace file in the debugfs tracing directory. 1645 1646 ftrace_graph_max_depth=<uint> 1647 [FTRACE] Used with the function graph tracer. This is 1648 the max depth it will trace into a function. This value 1649 can be changed at run time by the max_graph_depth file 1650 in the tracefs tracing directory. default: 0 (no limit) 1651 1652 fw_devlink= [KNL,EARLY] Create device links between consumer and supplier 1653 devices by scanning the firmware to infer the 1654 consumer/supplier relationships. This feature is 1655 especially useful when drivers are loaded as modules as 1656 it ensures proper ordering of tasks like device probing 1657 (suppliers first, then consumers), supplier boot state 1658 clean up (only after all consumers have probed), 1659 suspend/resume & runtime PM (consumers first, then 1660 suppliers). 1661 Format: { off | permissive | on | rpm } 1662 off -- Don't create device links from firmware info. 1663 permissive -- Create device links from firmware info 1664 but use it only for ordering boot state clean 1665 up (sync_state() calls). 1666 on -- Create device links from firmware info and use it 1667 to enforce probe and suspend/resume ordering. 1668 rpm -- Like "on", but also use to order runtime PM. 1669 1670 fw_devlink.strict=<bool> 1671 [KNL,EARLY] Treat all inferred dependencies as mandatory 1672 dependencies. This only applies for fw_devlink=on|rpm. 1673 Format: <bool> 1674 1675 fw_devlink.sync_state = 1676 [KNL,EARLY] When all devices that could probe have finished 1677 probing, this parameter controls what to do with 1678 devices that haven't yet received their sync_state() 1679 calls. 1680 Format: { strict | timeout } 1681 strict -- Default. Continue waiting on consumers to 1682 probe successfully. 1683 timeout -- Give up waiting on consumers and call 1684 sync_state() on any devices that haven't yet 1685 received their sync_state() calls after 1686 deferred_probe_timeout has expired or by 1687 late_initcall() if !CONFIG_MODULES. 1688 1689 gamecon.map[2|3]= 1690 [HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick and NES/SNES/PSX pad 1691 support via parallel port (up to 5 devices per port) 1692 Format: <port#>,<pad1>,<pad2>,<pad3>,<pad4>,<pad5> 1693 See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst 1694 1695 gamma= [HW,DRM] 1696 1697 gart_fix_e820= [X86-64,EARLY] disable the fix e820 for K8 GART 1698 Format: off | on 1699 default: on 1700 1701 gather_data_sampling= 1702 [X86,INTEL,EARLY] Control the Gather Data Sampling (GDS) 1703 mitigation. 1704 1705 Gather Data Sampling is a hardware vulnerability which 1706 allows unprivileged speculative access to data which was 1707 previously stored in vector registers. 1708 1709 This issue is mitigated by default in updated microcode. 1710 The mitigation may have a performance impact but can be 1711 disabled. On systems without the microcode mitigation 1712 disabling AVX serves as a mitigation. 1713 1714 force: Disable AVX to mitigate systems without 1715 microcode mitigation. No effect if the microcode 1716 mitigation is present. Known to cause crashes in 1717 userspace with buggy AVX enumeration. 1718 1719 off: Disable GDS mitigation. 1720 1721 gcov_persist= [GCOV] When non-zero (default), profiling data for 1722 kernel modules is saved and remains accessible via 1723 debugfs, even when the module is unloaded/reloaded. 1724 When zero, profiling data is discarded and associated 1725 debugfs files are removed at module unload time. 1726 1727 goldfish [X86] Enable the goldfish android emulator platform. 1728 Don't use this when you are not running on the 1729 android emulator 1730 1731 gpio-mockup.gpio_mockup_ranges 1732 [HW] Sets the ranges of gpiochip of for this device. 1733 Format: <start1>,<end1>,<start2>,<end2>... 1734 gpio-mockup.gpio_mockup_named_lines 1735 [HW] Let the driver know GPIO lines should be named. 1736 1737 gpt [EFI] Forces disk with valid GPT signature but 1738 invalid Protective MBR to be treated as GPT. If the 1739 primary GPT is corrupted, it enables the backup/alternate 1740 GPT to be used instead. 1741 1742 grcan.enable0= [HW] Configuration of physical interface 0. Determines 1743 the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register. 1744 Format: 0 | 1 1745 Default: 0 1746 grcan.enable1= [HW] Configuration of physical interface 1. Determines 1747 the "Enable 0" bit of the configuration register. 1748 Format: 0 | 1 1749 Default: 0 1750 grcan.select= [HW] Select which physical interface to use. 1751 Format: 0 | 1 1752 Default: 0 1753 grcan.txsize= [HW] Sets the size of the tx buffer. 1754 Format: <unsigned int> such that (txsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0. 1755 Default: 1024 1756 grcan.rxsize= [HW] Sets the size of the rx buffer. 1757 Format: <unsigned int> such that (rxsize & ~0x1fffc0) == 0. 1758 Default: 1024 1759 1760 hardened_usercopy= 1761 [KNL] Under CONFIG_HARDENED_USERCOPY, whether 1762 hardening is enabled for this boot. Hardened 1763 usercopy checking is used to protect the kernel 1764 from reading or writing beyond known memory 1765 allocation boundaries as a proactive defense 1766 against bounds-checking flaws in the kernel's 1767 copy_to_user()/copy_from_user() interface. 1768 on Perform hardened usercopy checks (default). 1769 off Disable hardened usercopy checks. 1770 1771 hardlockup_all_cpu_backtrace= 1772 [KNL] Should the hard-lockup detector generate 1773 backtraces on all cpus. 1774 Format: 0 | 1 1775 1776 hashdist= [KNL,NUMA] Large hashes allocated during boot 1777 are distributed across NUMA nodes. Defaults on 1778 for 64-bit NUMA, off otherwise. 1779 Format: 0 | 1 (for off | on) 1780 1781 hd= [EIDE] (E)IDE hard drive subsystem geometry 1782 Format: <cyl>,<head>,<sect> 1783 1784 hest_disable [ACPI] 1785 Disable Hardware Error Source Table (HEST) support; 1786 corresponding firmware-first mode error processing 1787 logic will be disabled. 1788 1789 hibernate= [HIBERNATION] 1790 noresume Don't check if there's a hibernation image 1791 present during boot. 1792 nocompress Don't compress/decompress hibernation images. 1793 no Disable hibernation and resume. 1794 protect_image Turn on image protection during restoration 1795 (that will set all pages holding image data 1796 during restoration read-only). 1797 1798 hibernate.compressor= [HIBERNATION] Compression algorithm to be 1799 used with hibernation. 1800 Format: { lzo | lz4 } 1801 Default: lzo 1802 1803 lzo: Select LZO compression algorithm to 1804 compress/decompress hibernation image. 1805 1806 lz4: Select LZ4 compression algorithm to 1807 compress/decompress hibernation image. 1808 1809 highmem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,EARLY] forces the highmem zone to have an exact 1810 size of <nn>. This works even on boxes that have no 1811 highmem otherwise. This also works to reduce highmem 1812 size on bigger boxes. 1813 1814 highres= [KNL] Enable/disable high resolution timer mode. 1815 Valid parameters: "on", "off" 1816 Default: "on" 1817 1818 hlt [BUGS=ARM,SH] 1819 1820 hostname= [KNL,EARLY] Set the hostname (aka UTS nodename). 1821 Format: <string> 1822 This allows setting the system's hostname during early 1823 startup. This sets the name returned by gethostname. 1824 Using this parameter to set the hostname makes it 1825 possible to ensure the hostname is correctly set before 1826 any userspace processes run, avoiding the possibility 1827 that a process may call gethostname before the hostname 1828 has been explicitly set, resulting in the calling 1829 process getting an incorrect result. The string must 1830 not exceed the maximum allowed hostname length (usually 1831 64 characters) and will be truncated otherwise. 1832 1833 hpet= [X86-32,HPET] option to control HPET usage 1834 Format: { enable (default) | disable | force | 1835 verbose } 1836 disable: disable HPET and use PIT instead 1837 force: allow force enabled of undocumented chips (ICH4, 1838 VIA, nVidia) 1839 verbose: show contents of HPET registers during setup 1840 1841 hpet_mmap= [X86, HPET_MMAP] Allow userspace to mmap HPET 1842 registers. Default set by CONFIG_HPET_MMAP_DEFAULT. 1843 1844 hugepages= [HW] Number of HugeTLB pages to allocate at boot. 1845 If this follows hugepagesz (below), it specifies 1846 the number of pages of hugepagesz to be allocated. 1847 If this is the first HugeTLB parameter on the command 1848 line, it specifies the number of pages to allocate for 1849 the default huge page size. If using node format, the 1850 number of pages to allocate per-node can be specified. 1851 See also Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst. 1852 Format: <integer> or (node format) 1853 <node>:<integer>[,<node>:<integer>] 1854 1855 hugepagesz= 1856 [HW] The size of the HugeTLB pages. This is used in 1857 conjunction with hugepages (above) to allocate huge 1858 pages of a specific size at boot. The pair 1859 hugepagesz=X hugepages=Y can be specified once for 1860 each supported huge page size. Huge page sizes are 1861 architecture dependent. See also 1862 Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst. 1863 Format: size[KMG] 1864 1865 hugetlb_cma= [HW,CMA,EARLY] The size of a CMA area used for allocation 1866 of gigantic hugepages. Or using node format, the size 1867 of a CMA area per node can be specified. 1868 Format: nn[KMGTPE] or (node format) 1869 <node>:nn[KMGTPE][,<node>:nn[KMGTPE]] 1870 1871 Reserve a CMA area of given size and allocate gigantic 1872 hugepages using the CMA allocator. If enabled, the 1873 boot-time allocation of gigantic hugepages is skipped. 1874 1875 hugetlb_free_vmemmap= 1876 [KNL] Requires CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE_OPTIMIZE_VMEMMAP 1877 enabled. 1878 Control if HugeTLB Vmemmap Optimization (HVO) is enabled. 1879 Allows heavy hugetlb users to free up some more 1880 memory (7 * PAGE_SIZE for each 2MB hugetlb page). 1881 Format: { on | off (default) } 1882 1883 on: enable HVO 1884 off: disable HVO 1885 1886 Built with CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE_OPTIMIZE_VMEMMAP_DEFAULT_ON=y, 1887 the default is on. 1888 1889 Note that the vmemmap pages may be allocated from the added 1890 memory block itself when memory_hotplug.memmap_on_memory is 1891 enabled, those vmemmap pages cannot be optimized even if this 1892 feature is enabled. Other vmemmap pages not allocated from 1893 the added memory block itself do not be affected. 1894 1895 hung_task_panic= 1896 [KNL] Should the hung task detector generate panics. 1897 Format: 0 | 1 1898 1899 A value of 1 instructs the kernel to panic when a 1900 hung task is detected. The default value is controlled 1901 by the CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC build-time 1902 option. The value selected by this boot parameter can 1903 be changed later by the kernel.hung_task_panic sysctl. 1904 1905 hvc_iucv= [S390] Number of z/VM IUCV hypervisor console (HVC) 1906 terminal devices. Valid values: 0..8 1907 hvc_iucv_allow= [S390] Comma-separated list of z/VM user IDs. 1908 If specified, z/VM IUCV HVC accepts connections 1909 from listed z/VM user IDs only. 1910 1911 hv_nopvspin [X86,HYPER_V,EARLY] 1912 Disables the paravirt spinlock optimizations 1913 which allow the hypervisor to 'idle' the guest 1914 on lock contention. 1915 1916 i2c_bus= [HW] Override the default board specific I2C bus speed 1917 or register an additional I2C bus that is not 1918 registered from board initialization code. 1919 Format: 1920 <bus_id>,<clkrate> 1921 1922 i2c_touchscreen_props= [HW,ACPI,X86] 1923 Set device-properties for ACPI-enumerated I2C-attached 1924 touchscreen, to e.g. fix coordinates of upside-down 1925 mounted touchscreens. If you need this option please 1926 submit a drivers/platform/x86/touchscreen_dmi.c patch 1927 adding a DMI quirk for this. 1928 1929 Format: 1930 <ACPI_HW_ID>:<prop_name>=<val>[:prop_name=val][:...] 1931 Where <val> is one of: 1932 Omit "=<val>" entirely Set a boolean device-property 1933 Unsigned number Set a u32 device-property 1934 Anything else Set a string device-property 1935 1936 Examples (split over multiple lines): 1937 i2c_touchscreen_props=GDIX1001:touchscreen-inverted-x: 1938 touchscreen-inverted-y 1939 1940 i2c_touchscreen_props=MSSL1680:touchscreen-size-x=1920: 1941 touchscreen-size-y=1080:touchscreen-inverted-y: 1942 firmware-name=gsl1680-vendor-model.fw:silead,home-button 1943 1944 i8042.debug [HW] Toggle i8042 debug mode 1945 i8042.unmask_kbd_data 1946 [HW] Enable printing of interrupt data from the KBD port 1947 (disabled by default, and as a pre-condition 1948 requires that i8042.debug=1 be enabled) 1949 i8042.direct [HW] Put keyboard port into non-translated mode 1950 i8042.dumbkbd [HW] Pretend that controller can only read data from 1951 keyboard and cannot control its state 1952 (Don't attempt to blink the leds) 1953 i8042.noaux [HW] Don't check for auxiliary (== mouse) port 1954 i8042.nokbd [HW] Don't check/create keyboard port 1955 i8042.noloop [HW] Disable the AUX Loopback command while probing 1956 for the AUX port 1957 i8042.nomux [HW] Don't check presence of an active multiplexing 1958 controller 1959 i8042.nopnp [HW] Don't use ACPIPnP / PnPBIOS to discover KBD/AUX 1960 controllers 1961 i8042.notimeout [HW] Ignore timeout condition signalled by controller 1962 i8042.reset [HW] Reset the controller during init, cleanup and 1963 suspend-to-ram transitions, only during s2r 1964 transitions, or never reset 1965 Format: { 1 | Y | y | 0 | N | n } 1966 1, Y, y: always reset controller 1967 0, N, n: don't ever reset controller 1968 Default: only on s2r transitions on x86; most other 1969 architectures force reset to be always executed 1970 i8042.unlock [HW] Unlock (ignore) the keylock 1971 i8042.kbdreset [HW] Reset device connected to KBD port 1972 i8042.probe_defer 1973 [HW] Allow deferred probing upon i8042 probe errors 1974 1975 i810= [HW,DRM] 1976 1977 i915.invert_brightness= 1978 [DRM] Invert the sense of the variable that is used to 1979 set the brightness of the panel backlight. Normally a 1980 brightness value of 0 indicates backlight switched off, 1981 and the maximum of the brightness value sets the backlight 1982 to maximum brightness. If this parameter is set to 0 1983 (default) and the machine requires it, or this parameter 1984 is set to 1, a brightness value of 0 sets the backlight 1985 to maximum brightness, and the maximum of the brightness 1986 value switches the backlight off. 1987 -1 -- never invert brightness 1988 0 -- machine default 1989 1 -- force brightness inversion 1990 1991 ia32_emulation= [X86-64] 1992 Format: <bool> 1993 When true, allows loading 32-bit programs and executing 32-bit 1994 syscalls, essentially overriding IA32_EMULATION_DEFAULT_DISABLED at 1995 boot time. When false, unconditionally disables IA32 emulation. 1996 1997 icn= [HW,ISDN] 1998 Format: <io>[,<membase>[,<icn_id>[,<icn_id2>]]] 1999 2000 2001 idle= [X86,EARLY] 2002 Format: idle=poll, idle=halt, idle=nomwait 2003 Poll forces a polling idle loop that can slightly 2004 improve the performance of waking up a idle CPU, but 2005 will use a lot of power and make the system run hot. 2006 Not recommended. 2007 idle=halt: Halt is forced to be used for CPU idle. 2008 In such case C2/C3 won't be used again. 2009 idle=nomwait: Disable mwait for CPU C-states 2010 2011 idxd.sva= [HW] 2012 Format: <bool> 2013 Allow force disabling of Shared Virtual Memory (SVA) 2014 support for the idxd driver. By default it is set to 2015 true (1). 2016 2017 idxd.tc_override= [HW] 2018 Format: <bool> 2019 Allow override of default traffic class configuration 2020 for the device. By default it is set to false (0). 2021 2022 ieee754= [MIPS] Select IEEE Std 754 conformance mode 2023 Format: { strict | legacy | 2008 | relaxed | emulated } 2024 Default: strict 2025 2026 Choose which programs will be accepted for execution 2027 based on the IEEE 754 NaN encoding(s) supported by 2028 the FPU and the NaN encoding requested with the value 2029 of an ELF file header flag individually set by each 2030 binary. Hardware implementations are permitted to 2031 support either or both of the legacy and the 2008 NaN 2032 encoding mode. 2033 2034 Available settings are as follows: 2035 strict accept binaries that request a NaN encoding 2036 supported by the FPU 2037 legacy only accept legacy-NaN binaries, if supported 2038 by the FPU 2039 2008 only accept 2008-NaN binaries, if supported 2040 by the FPU 2041 relaxed accept any binaries regardless of whether 2042 supported by the FPU 2043 emulated accept any binaries but enable FPU emulator 2044 if binary mode is unsupported by the FPU. 2045 2046 The FPU emulator is always able to support both NaN 2047 encodings, so if no FPU hardware is present or it has 2048 been disabled with 'nofpu', then the settings of 2049 'legacy' and '2008' strap the emulator accordingly, 2050 'relaxed' straps the emulator for both legacy-NaN and 2051 2008-NaN, whereas 'strict' enables legacy-NaN only on 2052 legacy processors and both NaN encodings on MIPS32 or 2053 MIPS64 CPUs. 2054 2055 The setting for ABS.fmt/NEG.fmt instruction execution 2056 mode generally follows that for the NaN encoding, 2057 except where unsupported by hardware. 2058 2059 ignore_loglevel [KNL,EARLY] 2060 Ignore loglevel setting - this will print /all/ 2061 kernel messages to the console. Useful for debugging. 2062 We also add it as printk module parameter, so users 2063 could change it dynamically, usually by 2064 /sys/module/printk/parameters/ignore_loglevel. 2065 2066 ignore_rlimit_data 2067 Ignore RLIMIT_DATA setting for data mappings, 2068 print warning at first misuse. Can be changed via 2069 /sys/module/kernel/parameters/ignore_rlimit_data. 2070 2071 ihash_entries= [KNL] 2072 Set number of hash buckets for inode cache. 2073 2074 ima_appraise= [IMA] appraise integrity measurements 2075 Format: { "off" | "enforce" | "fix" | "log" } 2076 default: "enforce" 2077 2078 ima_appraise_tcb [IMA] Deprecated. Use ima_policy= instead. 2079 The builtin appraise policy appraises all files 2080 owned by uid=0. 2081 2082 ima_canonical_fmt [IMA] 2083 Use the canonical format for the binary runtime 2084 measurements, instead of host native format. 2085 2086 ima_hash= [IMA] 2087 Format: { md5 | sha1 | rmd160 | sha256 | sha384 2088 | sha512 | ... } 2089 default: "sha1" 2090 2091 The list of supported hash algorithms is defined 2092 in crypto/hash_info.h. 2093 2094 ima_policy= [IMA] 2095 The builtin policies to load during IMA setup. 2096 Format: "tcb | appraise_tcb | secure_boot | 2097 fail_securely | critical_data" 2098 2099 The "tcb" policy measures all programs exec'd, files 2100 mmap'd for exec, and all files opened with the read 2101 mode bit set by either the effective uid (euid=0) or 2102 uid=0. 2103 2104 The "appraise_tcb" policy appraises the integrity of 2105 all files owned by root. 2106 2107 The "secure_boot" policy appraises the integrity 2108 of files (eg. kexec kernel image, kernel modules, 2109 firmware, policy, etc) based on file signatures. 2110 2111 The "fail_securely" policy forces file signature 2112 verification failure also on privileged mounted 2113 filesystems with the SB_I_UNVERIFIABLE_SIGNATURE 2114 flag. 2115 2116 The "critical_data" policy measures kernel integrity 2117 critical data. 2118 2119 ima_tcb [IMA] Deprecated. Use ima_policy= instead. 2120 Load a policy which meets the needs of the Trusted 2121 Computing Base. This means IMA will measure all 2122 programs exec'd, files mmap'd for exec, and all files 2123 opened for read by uid=0. 2124 2125 ima_template= [IMA] 2126 Select one of defined IMA measurements template formats. 2127 Formats: { "ima" | "ima-ng" | "ima-ngv2" | "ima-sig" | 2128 "ima-sigv2" } 2129 Default: "ima-ng" 2130 2131 ima_template_fmt= 2132 [IMA] Define a custom template format. 2133 Format: { "field1|...|fieldN" } 2134 2135 ima.ahash_minsize= [IMA] Minimum file size for asynchronous hash usage 2136 Format: <min_file_size> 2137 Set the minimal file size for using asynchronous hash. 2138 If left unspecified, ahash usage is disabled. 2139 2140 ahash performance varies for different data sizes on 2141 different crypto accelerators. This option can be used 2142 to achieve the best performance for a particular HW. 2143 2144 ima.ahash_bufsize= [IMA] Asynchronous hash buffer size 2145 Format: <bufsize> 2146 Set hashing buffer size. Default: 4k. 2147 2148 ahash performance varies for different chunk sizes on 2149 different crypto accelerators. This option can be used 2150 to achieve best performance for particular HW. 2151 2152 init= [KNL] 2153 Format: <full_path> 2154 Run specified binary instead of /sbin/init as init 2155 process. 2156 2157 initcall_debug [KNL] Trace initcalls as they are executed. Useful 2158 for working out where the kernel is dying during 2159 startup. 2160 2161 initcall_blacklist= [KNL] Do not execute a comma-separated list of 2162 initcall functions. Useful for debugging built-in 2163 modules and initcalls. 2164 2165 initramfs_async= [KNL] 2166 Format: <bool> 2167 Default: 1 2168 This parameter controls whether the initramfs 2169 image is unpacked asynchronously, concurrently 2170 with devices being probed and 2171 initialized. This should normally just work, 2172 but as a debugging aid, one can get the 2173 historical behaviour of the initramfs 2174 unpacking being completed before device_ and 2175 late_ initcalls. 2176 2177 initrd= [BOOT,EARLY] Specify the location of the initial ramdisk 2178 2179 initrdmem= [KNL,EARLY] Specify a physical address and size from which to 2180 load the initrd. If an initrd is compiled in or 2181 specified in the bootparams, it takes priority over this 2182 setting. 2183 Format: ss[KMG],nn[KMG] 2184 Default is 0, 0 2185 2186 init_on_alloc= [MM,EARLY] Fill newly allocated pages and heap objects with 2187 zeroes. 2188 Format: 0 | 1 2189 Default set by CONFIG_INIT_ON_ALLOC_DEFAULT_ON. 2190 2191 init_on_free= [MM,EARLY] Fill freed pages and heap objects with zeroes. 2192 Format: 0 | 1 2193 Default set by CONFIG_INIT_ON_FREE_DEFAULT_ON. 2194 2195 init_pkru= [X86] Specify the default memory protection keys rights 2196 register contents for all processes. 0x55555554 by 2197 default (disallow access to all but pkey 0). Can 2198 override in debugfs after boot. 2199 2200 inport.irq= [HW] Inport (ATI XL and Microsoft) busmouse driver 2201 Format: <irq> 2202 2203 int_pln_enable [X86] Enable power limit notification interrupt 2204 2205 integrity_audit=[IMA] 2206 Format: { "0" | "1" } 2207 0 -- basic integrity auditing messages. (Default) 2208 1 -- additional integrity auditing messages. 2209 2210 intel_iommu= [DMAR] Intel IOMMU driver (DMAR) option 2211 on 2212 Enable intel iommu driver. 2213 off 2214 Disable intel iommu driver. 2215 igfx_off [Default Off] 2216 By default, gfx is mapped as normal device. If a gfx 2217 device has a dedicated DMAR unit, the DMAR unit is 2218 bypassed by not enabling DMAR with this option. In 2219 this case, gfx device will use physical address for 2220 DMA. 2221 strict [Default Off] 2222 Deprecated, equivalent to iommu.strict=1. 2223 sp_off [Default Off] 2224 By default, super page will be supported if Intel IOMMU 2225 has the capability. With this option, super page will 2226 not be supported. 2227 sm_on 2228 Enable the Intel IOMMU scalable mode if the hardware 2229 advertises that it has support for the scalable mode 2230 translation. 2231 sm_off 2232 Disallow use of the Intel IOMMU scalable mode. 2233 tboot_noforce [Default Off] 2234 Do not force the Intel IOMMU enabled under tboot. 2235 By default, tboot will force Intel IOMMU on, which 2236 could harm performance of some high-throughput 2237 devices like 40GBit network cards, even if identity 2238 mapping is enabled. 2239 Note that using this option lowers the security 2240 provided by tboot because it makes the system 2241 vulnerable to DMA attacks. 2242 2243 intel_idle.max_cstate= [KNL,HW,ACPI,X86] 2244 0 disables intel_idle and fall back on acpi_idle. 2245 1 to 9 specify maximum depth of C-state. 2246 2247 intel_pstate= [X86,EARLY] 2248 disable 2249 Do not enable intel_pstate as the default 2250 scaling driver for the supported processors 2251 active 2252 Use intel_pstate driver to bypass the scaling 2253 governors layer of cpufreq and provides it own 2254 algorithms for p-state selection. There are two 2255 P-state selection algorithms provided by 2256 intel_pstate in the active mode: powersave and 2257 performance. The way they both operate depends 2258 on whether or not the hardware managed P-states 2259 (HWP) feature has been enabled in the processor 2260 and possibly on the processor model. 2261 passive 2262 Use intel_pstate as a scaling driver, but configure it 2263 to work with generic cpufreq governors (instead of 2264 enabling its internal governor). This mode cannot be 2265 used along with the hardware-managed P-states (HWP) 2266 feature. 2267 force 2268 Enable intel_pstate on systems that prohibit it by default 2269 in favor of acpi-cpufreq. Forcing the intel_pstate driver 2270 instead of acpi-cpufreq may disable platform features, such 2271 as thermal controls and power capping, that rely on ACPI 2272 P-States information being indicated to OSPM and therefore 2273 should be used with caution. This option does not work with 2274 processors that aren't supported by the intel_pstate driver 2275 or on platforms that use pcc-cpufreq instead of acpi-cpufreq. 2276 no_hwp 2277 Do not enable hardware P state control (HWP) 2278 if available. 2279 hwp_only 2280 Only load intel_pstate on systems which support 2281 hardware P state control (HWP) if available. 2282 support_acpi_ppc 2283 Enforce ACPI _PPC performance limits. If the Fixed ACPI 2284 Description Table, specifies preferred power management 2285 profile as "Enterprise Server" or "Performance Server", 2286 then this feature is turned on by default. 2287 per_cpu_perf_limits 2288 Allow per-logical-CPU P-State performance control limits using 2289 cpufreq sysfs interface 2290 2291 intremap= [X86-64,Intel-IOMMU,EARLY] 2292 on enable Interrupt Remapping (default) 2293 off disable Interrupt Remapping 2294 nosid disable Source ID checking 2295 no_x2apic_optout 2296 BIOS x2APIC opt-out request will be ignored 2297 nopost disable Interrupt Posting 2298 posted_msi 2299 enable MSIs delivered as posted interrupts 2300 2301 iomem= Disable strict checking of access to MMIO memory 2302 strict regions from userspace. 2303 relaxed 2304 2305 iommu= [X86,EARLY] 2306 off 2307 force 2308 noforce 2309 biomerge 2310 panic 2311 nopanic 2312 merge 2313 nomerge 2314 soft 2315 pt [X86] 2316 nopt [X86] 2317 nobypass [PPC/POWERNV] 2318 Disable IOMMU bypass, using IOMMU for PCI devices. 2319 2320 iommu.forcedac= [ARM64,X86,EARLY] Control IOVA allocation for PCI devices. 2321 Format: { "0" | "1" } 2322 0 - Try to allocate a 32-bit DMA address first, before 2323 falling back to the full range if needed. 2324 1 - Allocate directly from the full usable range, 2325 forcing Dual Address Cycle for PCI cards supporting 2326 greater than 32-bit addressing. 2327 2328 iommu.strict= [ARM64,X86,S390,EARLY] Configure TLB invalidation behaviour 2329 Format: { "0" | "1" } 2330 0 - Lazy mode. 2331 Request that DMA unmap operations use deferred 2332 invalidation of hardware TLBs, for increased 2333 throughput at the cost of reduced device isolation. 2334 Will fall back to strict mode if not supported by 2335 the relevant IOMMU driver. 2336 1 - Strict mode. 2337 DMA unmap operations invalidate IOMMU hardware TLBs 2338 synchronously. 2339 unset - Use value of CONFIG_IOMMU_DEFAULT_DMA_{LAZY,STRICT}. 2340 Note: on x86, strict mode specified via one of the 2341 legacy driver-specific options takes precedence. 2342 2343 iommu.passthrough= 2344 [ARM64,X86,EARLY] Configure DMA to bypass the IOMMU by default. 2345 Format: { "0" | "1" } 2346 0 - Use IOMMU translation for DMA. 2347 1 - Bypass the IOMMU for DMA. 2348 unset - Use value of CONFIG_IOMMU_DEFAULT_PASSTHROUGH. 2349 2350 io7= [HW] IO7 for Marvel-based Alpha systems 2351 See comment before marvel_specify_io7 in 2352 arch/alpha/kernel/core_marvel.c. 2353 2354 io_delay= [X86,EARLY] I/O delay method 2355 0x80 2356 Standard port 0x80 based delay 2357 0xed 2358 Alternate port 0xed based delay (needed on some systems) 2359 udelay 2360 Simple two microseconds delay 2361 none 2362 No delay 2363 2364 ip= [IP_PNP] 2365 See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst. 2366 2367 ipcmni_extend [KNL,EARLY] Extend the maximum number of unique System V 2368 IPC identifiers from 32,768 to 16,777,216. 2369 2370 ipe.enforce= [IPE] 2371 Format: <bool> 2372 Determine whether IPE starts in permissive (0) or 2373 enforce (1) mode. The default is enforce. 2374 2375 ipe.success_audit= 2376 [IPE] 2377 Format: <bool> 2378 Start IPE with success auditing enabled, emitting 2379 an audit event when a binary is allowed. The default 2380 is 0. 2381 2382 irqaffinity= [SMP] Set the default irq affinity mask 2383 The argument is a cpu list, as described above. 2384 2385 irqchip.gicv2_force_probe= 2386 [ARM,ARM64,EARLY] 2387 Format: <bool> 2388 Force the kernel to look for the second 4kB page 2389 of a GICv2 controller even if the memory range 2390 exposed by the device tree is too small. 2391 2392 irqchip.gicv3_nolpi= 2393 [ARM,ARM64,EARLY] 2394 Force the kernel to ignore the availability of 2395 LPIs (and by consequence ITSs). Intended for system 2396 that use the kernel as a bootloader, and thus want 2397 to let secondary kernels in charge of setting up 2398 LPIs. 2399 2400 irqchip.gicv3_pseudo_nmi= [ARM64,EARLY] 2401 Enables support for pseudo-NMIs in the kernel. This 2402 requires the kernel to be built with 2403 CONFIG_ARM64_PSEUDO_NMI. 2404 2405 irqfixup [HW] 2406 When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers 2407 for it. Intended to get systems with badly broken 2408 firmware running. 2409 2410 irqpoll [HW] 2411 When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers 2412 for it. Also check all handlers each timer 2413 interrupt. Intended to get systems with badly broken 2414 firmware running. 2415 2416 isapnp= [ISAPNP] 2417 Format: <RDP>,<reset>,<pci_scan>,<verbosity> 2418 2419 isolcpus= [KNL,SMP,ISOL] Isolate a given set of CPUs from disturbance. 2420 [Deprecated - use cpusets instead] 2421 Format: [flag-list,]<cpu-list> 2422 2423 Specify one or more CPUs to isolate from disturbances 2424 specified in the flag list (default: domain): 2425 2426 nohz 2427 Disable the tick when a single task runs. 2428 2429 A residual 1Hz tick is offloaded to workqueues, which you 2430 need to affine to housekeeping through the global 2431 workqueue's affinity configured via the 2432 /sys/devices/virtual/workqueue/cpumask sysfs file, or 2433 by using the 'domain' flag described below. 2434 2435 NOTE: by default the global workqueue runs on all CPUs, 2436 so to protect individual CPUs the 'cpumask' file has to 2437 be configured manually after bootup. 2438 2439 domain 2440 Isolate from the general SMP balancing and scheduling 2441 algorithms. Note that performing domain isolation this way 2442 is irreversible: it's not possible to bring back a CPU to 2443 the domains once isolated through isolcpus. It's strongly 2444 advised to use cpusets instead to disable scheduler load 2445 balancing through the "cpuset.sched_load_balance" file. 2446 It offers a much more flexible interface where CPUs can 2447 move in and out of an isolated set anytime. 2448 2449 You can move a process onto or off an "isolated" CPU via 2450 the CPU affinity syscalls or cpuset. 2451 <cpu number> begins at 0 and the maximum value is 2452 "number of CPUs in system - 1". 2453 2454 managed_irq 2455 2456 Isolate from being targeted by managed interrupts 2457 which have an interrupt mask containing isolated 2458 CPUs. The affinity of managed interrupts is 2459 handled by the kernel and cannot be changed via 2460 the /proc/irq/* interfaces. 2461 2462 This isolation is best effort and only effective 2463 if the automatically assigned interrupt mask of a 2464 device queue contains isolated and housekeeping 2465 CPUs. If housekeeping CPUs are online then such 2466 interrupts are directed to the housekeeping CPU 2467 so that IO submitted on the housekeeping CPU 2468 cannot disturb the isolated CPU. 2469 2470 If a queue's affinity mask contains only isolated 2471 CPUs then this parameter has no effect on the 2472 interrupt routing decision, though interrupts are 2473 only delivered when tasks running on those 2474 isolated CPUs submit IO. IO submitted on 2475 housekeeping CPUs has no influence on those 2476 queues. 2477 2478 The format of <cpu-list> is described above. 2479 2480 iucv= [HW,NET] 2481 2482 ivrs_ioapic [HW,X86-64] 2483 Provide an override to the IOAPIC-ID<->DEVICE-ID 2484 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. 2485 By default, PCI segment is 0, and can be omitted. 2486 2487 For example, to map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to 2488 PCI segment 0x1 and PCI device 00:14.0, 2489 write the parameter as: 2490 ivrs_ioapic=10@0001:00:14.0 2491 2492 Deprecated formats: 2493 * To map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to PCI device 00:14.0 2494 write the parameter as: 2495 ivrs_ioapic[10]=00:14.0 2496 * To map IOAPIC-ID decimal 10 to PCI segment 0x1 and 2497 PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as: 2498 ivrs_ioapic[10]=0001:00:14.0 2499 2500 ivrs_hpet [HW,X86-64] 2501 Provide an override to the HPET-ID<->DEVICE-ID 2502 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. 2503 By default, PCI segment is 0, and can be omitted. 2504 2505 For example, to map HPET-ID decimal 10 to 2506 PCI segment 0x1 and PCI device 00:14.0, 2507 write the parameter as: 2508 ivrs_hpet=10@0001:00:14.0 2509 2510 Deprecated formats: 2511 * To map HPET-ID decimal 0 to PCI device 00:14.0 2512 write the parameter as: 2513 ivrs_hpet[0]=00:14.0 2514 * To map HPET-ID decimal 10 to PCI segment 0x1 and 2515 PCI device 00:14.0 write the parameter as: 2516 ivrs_ioapic[10]=0001:00:14.0 2517 2518 ivrs_acpihid [HW,X86-64] 2519 Provide an override to the ACPI-HID:UID<->DEVICE-ID 2520 mapping provided in the IVRS ACPI table. 2521 By default, PCI segment is 0, and can be omitted. 2522 2523 For example, to map UART-HID:UID AMD0020:0 to 2524 PCI segment 0x1 and PCI device ID 00:14.5, 2525 write the parameter as: 2526 ivrs_acpihid=AMD0020:0@0001:00:14.5 2527 2528 Deprecated formats: 2529 * To map UART-HID:UID AMD0020:0 to PCI segment is 0, 2530 PCI device ID 00:14.5, write the parameter as: 2531 ivrs_acpihid[00:14.5]=AMD0020:0 2532 * To map UART-HID:UID AMD0020:0 to PCI segment 0x1 and 2533 PCI device ID 00:14.5, write the parameter as: 2534 ivrs_acpihid[0001:00:14.5]=AMD0020:0 2535 2536 js= [HW,JOY] Analog joystick 2537 See Documentation/input/joydev/joystick.rst. 2538 2539 kasan_multi_shot 2540 [KNL] Enforce KASAN (Kernel Address Sanitizer) to print 2541 report on every invalid memory access. Without this 2542 parameter KASAN will print report only for the first 2543 invalid access. 2544 2545 keep_bootcon [KNL,EARLY] 2546 Do not unregister boot console at start. This is only 2547 useful for debugging when something happens in the window 2548 between unregistering the boot console and initializing 2549 the real console. 2550 2551 keepinitrd [HW,ARM] See retain_initrd. 2552 2553 kernelcore= [KNL,X86,PPC,EARLY] 2554 Format: nn[KMGTPE] | nn% | "mirror" 2555 This parameter specifies the amount of memory usable by 2556 the kernel for non-movable allocations. The requested 2557 amount is spread evenly throughout all nodes in the 2558 system as ZONE_NORMAL. The remaining memory is used for 2559 movable memory in its own zone, ZONE_MOVABLE. In the 2560 event, a node is too small to have both ZONE_NORMAL and 2561 ZONE_MOVABLE, kernelcore memory will take priority and 2562 other nodes will have a larger ZONE_MOVABLE. 2563 2564 ZONE_MOVABLE is used for the allocation of pages that 2565 may be reclaimed or moved by the page migration 2566 subsystem. Note that allocations like PTEs-from-HighMem 2567 still use the HighMem zone if it exists, and the Normal 2568 zone if it does not. 2569 2570 It is possible to specify the exact amount of memory in 2571 the form of "nn[KMGTPE]", a percentage of total system 2572 memory in the form of "nn%", or "mirror". If "mirror" 2573 option is specified, mirrored (reliable) memory is used 2574 for non-movable allocations and remaining memory is used 2575 for Movable pages. "nn[KMGTPE]", "nn%", and "mirror" 2576 are exclusive, so you cannot specify multiple forms. 2577 2578 kgdbdbgp= [KGDB,HW,EARLY] kgdb over EHCI usb debug port. 2579 Format: <Controller#>[,poll interval] 2580 The controller # is the number of the ehci usb debug 2581 port as it is probed via PCI. The poll interval is 2582 optional and is the number seconds in between 2583 each poll cycle to the debug port in case you need 2584 the functionality for interrupting the kernel with 2585 gdb or control-c on the dbgp connection. When 2586 not using this parameter you use sysrq-g to break into 2587 the kernel debugger. 2588 2589 kgdboc= [KGDB,HW] kgdb over consoles. 2590 Requires a tty driver that supports console polling, 2591 or a supported polling keyboard driver (non-usb). 2592 Serial only format: <serial_device>[,baud] 2593 keyboard only format: kbd 2594 keyboard and serial format: kbd,<serial_device>[,baud] 2595 Optional Kernel mode setting: 2596 kms, kbd format: kms,kbd 2597 kms, kbd and serial format: kms,kbd,<ser_dev>[,baud] 2598 2599 kgdboc_earlycon= [KGDB,HW,EARLY] 2600 If the boot console provides the ability to read 2601 characters and can work in polling mode, you can use 2602 this parameter to tell kgdb to use it as a backend 2603 until the normal console is registered. Intended to 2604 be used together with the kgdboc parameter which 2605 specifies the normal console to transition to. 2606 2607 The name of the early console should be specified 2608 as the value of this parameter. Note that the name of 2609 the early console might be different than the tty 2610 name passed to kgdboc. It's OK to leave the value 2611 blank and the first boot console that implements 2612 read() will be picked. 2613 2614 kgdbwait [KGDB,EARLY] Stop kernel execution and enter the 2615 kernel debugger at the earliest opportunity. 2616 2617 kmac= [MIPS] Korina ethernet MAC address. 2618 Configure the RouterBoard 532 series on-chip 2619 Ethernet adapter MAC address. 2620 2621 kmemleak= [KNL,EARLY] Boot-time kmemleak enable/disable 2622 Valid arguments: on, off 2623 Default: on 2624 Built with CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_DEFAULT_OFF=y, 2625 the default is off. 2626 2627 kprobe_event=[probe-list] 2628 [FTRACE] Add kprobe events and enable at boot time. 2629 The probe-list is a semicolon delimited list of probe 2630 definitions. Each definition is same as kprobe_events 2631 interface, but the parameters are comma delimited. 2632 For example, to add a kprobe event on vfs_read with 2633 arg1 and arg2, add to the command line; 2634 2635 kprobe_event=p,vfs_read,$arg1,$arg2 2636 2637 See also Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.rst "Kernel 2638 Boot Parameter" section. 2639 2640 kpti= [ARM64,EARLY] Control page table isolation of 2641 user and kernel address spaces. 2642 Default: enabled on cores which need mitigation. 2643 0: force disabled 2644 1: force enabled 2645 2646 kunit.enable= [KUNIT] Enable executing KUnit tests. Requires 2647 CONFIG_KUNIT to be set to be fully enabled. The 2648 default value can be overridden via 2649 KUNIT_DEFAULT_ENABLED. 2650 Default is 1 (enabled) 2651 2652 kvm.ignore_msrs=[KVM] Ignore guest accesses to unhandled MSRs. 2653 Default is 0 (don't ignore, but inject #GP) 2654 2655 kvm.eager_page_split= 2656 [KVM,X86] Controls whether or not KVM will try to 2657 proactively split all huge pages during dirty logging. 2658 Eager page splitting reduces interruptions to vCPU 2659 execution by eliminating the write-protection faults 2660 and MMU lock contention that would otherwise be 2661 required to split huge pages lazily. 2662 2663 VM workloads that rarely perform writes or that write 2664 only to a small region of VM memory may benefit from 2665 disabling eager page splitting to allow huge pages to 2666 still be used for reads. 2667 2668 The behavior of eager page splitting depends on whether 2669 KVM_DIRTY_LOG_INITIALLY_SET is enabled or disabled. If 2670 disabled, all huge pages in a memslot will be eagerly 2671 split when dirty logging is enabled on that memslot. If 2672 enabled, eager page splitting will be performed during 2673 the KVM_CLEAR_DIRTY ioctl, and only for the pages being 2674 cleared. 2675 2676 Eager page splitting is only supported when kvm.tdp_mmu=Y. 2677 2678 Default is Y (on). 2679 2680 kvm.enable_vmware_backdoor=[KVM] Support VMware backdoor PV interface. 2681 Default is false (don't support). 2682 2683 kvm.nx_huge_pages= 2684 [KVM] Controls the software workaround for the 2685 X86_BUG_ITLB_MULTIHIT bug. 2686 force : Always deploy workaround. 2687 off : Never deploy workaround. 2688 auto : Deploy workaround based on the presence of 2689 X86_BUG_ITLB_MULTIHIT. 2690 2691 Default is 'auto'. 2692 2693 If the software workaround is enabled for the host, 2694 guests do need not to enable it for nested guests. 2695 2696 kvm.nx_huge_pages_recovery_ratio= 2697 [KVM] Controls how many 4KiB pages are periodically zapped 2698 back to huge pages. 0 disables the recovery, otherwise if 2699 the value is N KVM will zap 1/Nth of the 4KiB pages every 2700 period (see below). The default is 60. 2701 2702 kvm.nx_huge_pages_recovery_period_ms= 2703 [KVM] Controls the time period at which KVM zaps 4KiB pages 2704 back to huge pages. If the value is a non-zero N, KVM will 2705 zap a portion (see ratio above) of the pages every N msecs. 2706 If the value is 0 (the default), KVM will pick a period based 2707 on the ratio, such that a page is zapped after 1 hour on average. 2708 2709 kvm-amd.nested= [KVM,AMD] Control nested virtualization feature in 2710 KVM/SVM. Default is 1 (enabled). 2711 2712 kvm-amd.npt= [KVM,AMD] Control KVM's use of Nested Page Tables, 2713 a.k.a. Two-Dimensional Page Tables. Default is 1 2714 (enabled). Disable by KVM if hardware lacks support 2715 for NPT. 2716 2717 kvm-arm.mode= 2718 [KVM,ARM,EARLY] Select one of KVM/arm64's modes of 2719 operation. 2720 2721 none: Forcefully disable KVM. 2722 2723 nvhe: Standard nVHE-based mode, without support for 2724 protected guests. 2725 2726 protected: nVHE-based mode with support for guests whose 2727 state is kept private from the host. 2728 2729 nested: VHE-based mode with support for nested 2730 virtualization. Requires at least ARMv8.3 2731 hardware. 2732 2733 Defaults to VHE/nVHE based on hardware support. Setting 2734 mode to "protected" will disable kexec and hibernation 2735 for the host. "nested" is experimental and should be 2736 used with extreme caution. 2737 2738 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group0_trap= 2739 [KVM,ARM,EARLY] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-0 2740 system registers 2741 2742 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group1_trap= 2743 [KVM,ARM,EARLY] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-1 2744 system registers 2745 2746 kvm-arm.vgic_v3_common_trap= 2747 [KVM,ARM,EARLY] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 common 2748 system registers 2749 2750 kvm-arm.vgic_v4_enable= 2751 [KVM,ARM,EARLY] Allow use of GICv4 for direct 2752 injection of LPIs. 2753 2754 kvm-arm.wfe_trap_policy= 2755 [KVM,ARM] Control when to set WFE instruction trap for 2756 KVM VMs. Traps are allowed but not guaranteed by the 2757 CPU architecture. 2758 2759 trap: set WFE instruction trap 2760 2761 notrap: clear WFE instruction trap 2762 2763 kvm-arm.wfi_trap_policy= 2764 [KVM,ARM] Control when to set WFI instruction trap for 2765 KVM VMs. Traps are allowed but not guaranteed by the 2766 CPU architecture. 2767 2768 trap: set WFI instruction trap 2769 2770 notrap: clear WFI instruction trap 2771 2772 kvm_cma_resv_ratio=n [PPC,EARLY] 2773 Reserves given percentage from system memory area for 2774 contiguous memory allocation for KVM hash pagetable 2775 allocation. 2776 By default it reserves 5% of total system memory. 2777 Format: <integer> 2778 Default: 5 2779 2780 kvm-intel.ept= [KVM,Intel] Control KVM's use of Extended Page Tables, 2781 a.k.a. Two-Dimensional Page Tables. Default is 1 2782 (enabled). Disable by KVM if hardware lacks support 2783 for EPT. 2784 2785 kvm-intel.emulate_invalid_guest_state= 2786 [KVM,Intel] Control whether to emulate invalid guest 2787 state. Ignored if kvm-intel.enable_unrestricted_guest=1, 2788 as guest state is never invalid for unrestricted 2789 guests. This param doesn't apply to nested guests (L2), 2790 as KVM never emulates invalid L2 guest state. 2791 Default is 1 (enabled). 2792 2793 kvm-intel.flexpriority= 2794 [KVM,Intel] Control KVM's use of FlexPriority feature 2795 (TPR shadow). Default is 1 (enabled). Disable by KVM if 2796 hardware lacks support for it. 2797 2798 kvm-intel.nested= 2799 [KVM,Intel] Control nested virtualization feature in 2800 KVM/VMX. Default is 1 (enabled). 2801 2802 kvm-intel.unrestricted_guest= 2803 [KVM,Intel] Control KVM's use of unrestricted guest 2804 feature (virtualized real and unpaged mode). Default 2805 is 1 (enabled). Disable by KVM if EPT is disabled or 2806 hardware lacks support for it. 2807 2808 kvm-intel.vmentry_l1d_flush=[KVM,Intel] Mitigation for L1 Terminal Fault 2809 CVE-2018-3620. 2810 2811 Valid arguments: never, cond, always 2812 2813 always: L1D cache flush on every VMENTER. 2814 cond: Flush L1D on VMENTER only when the code between 2815 VMEXIT and VMENTER can leak host memory. 2816 never: Disables the mitigation 2817 2818 Default is cond (do L1 cache flush in specific instances) 2819 2820 kvm-intel.vpid= [KVM,Intel] Control KVM's use of Virtual Processor 2821 Identification feature (tagged TLBs). Default is 1 2822 (enabled). Disable by KVM if hardware lacks support 2823 for it. 2824 2825 l1d_flush= [X86,INTEL,EARLY] 2826 Control mitigation for L1D based snooping vulnerability. 2827 2828 Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against CPU 2829 internal buffers which can forward information to a 2830 disclosure gadget under certain conditions. 2831 2832 In vulnerable processors, the speculatively 2833 forwarded data can be used in a cache side channel 2834 attack, to access data to which the attacker does 2835 not have direct access. 2836 2837 This parameter controls the mitigation. The 2838 options are: 2839 2840 on - enable the interface for the mitigation 2841 2842 l1tf= [X86,EARLY] Control mitigation of the L1TF vulnerability on 2843 affected CPUs 2844 2845 The kernel PTE inversion protection is unconditionally 2846 enabled and cannot be disabled. 2847 2848 full 2849 Provides all available mitigations for the 2850 L1TF vulnerability. Disables SMT and 2851 enables all mitigations in the 2852 hypervisors, i.e. unconditional L1D flush. 2853 2854 SMT control and L1D flush control via the 2855 sysfs interface is still possible after 2856 boot. Hypervisors will issue a warning 2857 when the first VM is started in a 2858 potentially insecure configuration, 2859 i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled. 2860 2861 full,force 2862 Same as 'full', but disables SMT and L1D 2863 flush runtime control. Implies the 2864 'nosmt=force' command line option. 2865 (i.e. sysfs control of SMT is disabled.) 2866 2867 flush 2868 Leaves SMT enabled and enables the default 2869 hypervisor mitigation, i.e. conditional 2870 L1D flush. 2871 2872 SMT control and L1D flush control via the 2873 sysfs interface is still possible after 2874 boot. Hypervisors will issue a warning 2875 when the first VM is started in a 2876 potentially insecure configuration, 2877 i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled. 2878 2879 flush,nosmt 2880 2881 Disables SMT and enables the default 2882 hypervisor mitigation. 2883 2884 SMT control and L1D flush control via the 2885 sysfs interface is still possible after 2886 boot. Hypervisors will issue a warning 2887 when the first VM is started in a 2888 potentially insecure configuration, 2889 i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled. 2890 2891 flush,nowarn 2892 Same as 'flush', but hypervisors will not 2893 warn when a VM is started in a potentially 2894 insecure configuration. 2895 2896 off 2897 Disables hypervisor mitigations and doesn't 2898 emit any warnings. 2899 It also drops the swap size and available 2900 RAM limit restriction on both hypervisor and 2901 bare metal. 2902 2903 Default is 'flush'. 2904 2905 For details see: Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/l1tf.rst 2906 2907 l2cr= [PPC] 2908 2909 l3cr= [PPC] 2910 2911 lapic [X86-32,APIC,EARLY] Enable the local APIC even if BIOS 2912 disabled it. 2913 2914 lapic= [X86,APIC] Do not use TSC deadline 2915 value for LAPIC timer one-shot implementation. Default 2916 back to the programmable timer unit in the LAPIC. 2917 Format: notscdeadline 2918 2919 lapic_timer_c2_ok [X86,APIC,EARLY] trust the local apic timer 2920 in C2 power state. 2921 2922 libata.dma= [LIBATA] DMA control 2923 libata.dma=0 Disable all PATA and SATA DMA 2924 libata.dma=1 PATA and SATA Disk DMA only 2925 libata.dma=2 ATAPI (CDROM) DMA only 2926 libata.dma=4 Compact Flash DMA only 2927 Combinations also work, so libata.dma=3 enables DMA 2928 for disks and CDROMs, but not CFs. 2929 2930 libata.ignore_hpa= [LIBATA] Ignore HPA limit 2931 libata.ignore_hpa=0 keep BIOS limits (default) 2932 libata.ignore_hpa=1 ignore limits, using full disk 2933 2934 libata.noacpi [LIBATA] Disables use of ACPI in libata suspend/resume 2935 when set. 2936 Format: <int> 2937 2938 libata.force= [LIBATA] Force configurations. The format is a comma- 2939 separated list of "[ID:]VAL" where ID is PORT[.DEVICE]. 2940 PORT and DEVICE are decimal numbers matching port, link 2941 or device. Basically, it matches the ATA ID string 2942 printed on console by libata. If the whole ID part is 2943 omitted, the last PORT and DEVICE values are used. If 2944 ID hasn't been specified yet, the configuration applies 2945 to all ports, links and devices. 2946 2947 If only DEVICE is omitted, the parameter applies to 2948 the port and all links and devices behind it. DEVICE 2949 number of 0 either selects the first device or the 2950 first fan-out link behind PMP device. It does not 2951 select the host link. DEVICE number of 15 selects the 2952 host link and device attached to it. 2953 2954 The VAL specifies the configuration to force. As long 2955 as there is no ambiguity, shortcut notation is allowed. 2956 For example, both 1.5 and 1.5G would work for 1.5Gbps. 2957 The following configurations can be forced. 2958 2959 * Cable type: 40c, 80c, short40c, unk, ign or sata. 2960 Any ID with matching PORT is used. 2961 2962 * SATA link speed limit: 1.5Gbps or 3.0Gbps. 2963 2964 * Transfer mode: pio[0-7], mwdma[0-4] and udma[0-7]. 2965 udma[/][16,25,33,44,66,100,133] notation is also 2966 allowed. 2967 2968 * nohrst, nosrst, norst: suppress hard, soft and both 2969 resets. 2970 2971 * rstonce: only attempt one reset during hot-unplug 2972 link recovery. 2973 2974 * [no]dbdelay: Enable or disable the extra 200ms delay 2975 before debouncing a link PHY and device presence 2976 detection. 2977 2978 * [no]ncq: Turn on or off NCQ. 2979 2980 * [no]ncqtrim: Enable or disable queued DSM TRIM. 2981 2982 * [no]ncqati: Enable or disable NCQ trim on ATI chipset. 2983 2984 * [no]trim: Enable or disable (unqueued) TRIM. 2985 2986 * trim_zero: Indicate that TRIM command zeroes data. 2987 2988 * max_trim_128m: Set 128M maximum trim size limit. 2989 2990 * [no]dma: Turn on or off DMA transfers. 2991 2992 * atapi_dmadir: Enable ATAPI DMADIR bridge support. 2993 2994 * atapi_mod16_dma: Enable the use of ATAPI DMA for 2995 commands that are not a multiple of 16 bytes. 2996 2997 * [no]dmalog: Enable or disable the use of the 2998 READ LOG DMA EXT command to access logs. 2999 3000 * [no]iddevlog: Enable or disable access to the 3001 identify device data log. 3002 3003 * [no]logdir: Enable or disable access to the general 3004 purpose log directory. 3005 3006 * max_sec_128: Set transfer size limit to 128 sectors. 3007 3008 * max_sec_1024: Set or clear transfer size limit to 3009 1024 sectors. 3010 3011 * max_sec_lba48: Set or clear transfer size limit to 3012 65535 sectors. 3013 3014 * [no]lpm: Enable or disable link power management. 3015 3016 * [no]setxfer: Indicate if transfer speed mode setting 3017 should be skipped. 3018 3019 * [no]fua: Disable or enable FUA (Force Unit Access) 3020 support for devices supporting this feature. 3021 3022 * dump_id: Dump IDENTIFY data. 3023 3024 * disable: Disable this device. 3025 3026 If there are multiple matching configurations changing 3027 the same attribute, the last one is used. 3028 3029 load_ramdisk= [RAM] [Deprecated] 3030 3031 lockd.nlm_grace_period=P [NFS] Assign grace period. 3032 Format: <integer> 3033 3034 lockd.nlm_tcpport=N [NFS] Assign TCP port. 3035 Format: <integer> 3036 3037 lockd.nlm_timeout=T [NFS] Assign timeout value. 3038 Format: <integer> 3039 3040 lockd.nlm_udpport=M [NFS] Assign UDP port. 3041 Format: <integer> 3042 3043 lockdown= [SECURITY,EARLY] 3044 { integrity | confidentiality } 3045 Enable the kernel lockdown feature. If set to 3046 integrity, kernel features that allow userland to 3047 modify the running kernel are disabled. If set to 3048 confidentiality, kernel features that allow userland 3049 to extract confidential information from the kernel 3050 are also disabled. 3051 3052 locktorture.acq_writer_lim= [KNL] 3053 Set the time limit in jiffies for a lock 3054 acquisition. Acquisitions exceeding this limit 3055 will result in a splat once they do complete. 3056 3057 locktorture.bind_readers= [KNL] 3058 Specify the list of CPUs to which the readers are 3059 to be bound. 3060 3061 locktorture.bind_writers= [KNL] 3062 Specify the list of CPUs to which the writers are 3063 to be bound. 3064 3065 locktorture.call_rcu_chains= [KNL] 3066 Specify the number of self-propagating call_rcu() 3067 chains to set up. These are used to ensure that 3068 there is a high probability of an RCU grace period 3069 in progress at any given time. Defaults to 0, 3070 which disables these call_rcu() chains. 3071 3072 locktorture.long_hold= [KNL] 3073 Specify the duration in milliseconds for the 3074 occasional long-duration lock hold time. Defaults 3075 to 100 milliseconds. Select 0 to disable. 3076 3077 locktorture.nested_locks= [KNL] 3078 Specify the maximum lock nesting depth that 3079 locktorture is to exercise, up to a limit of 8 3080 (MAX_NESTED_LOCKS). Specify zero to disable. 3081 Note that this parameter is ineffective on types 3082 of locks that do not support nested acquisition. 3083 3084 locktorture.nreaders_stress= [KNL] 3085 Set the number of locking read-acquisition kthreads. 3086 Defaults to being automatically set based on the 3087 number of online CPUs. 3088 3089 locktorture.nwriters_stress= [KNL] 3090 Set the number of locking write-acquisition kthreads. 3091 3092 locktorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL] 3093 Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing. 3094 3095 locktorture.onoff_interval= [KNL] 3096 Set time (s) between CPU-hotplug operations, or 3097 zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing. 3098 3099 locktorture.rt_boost= [KNL] 3100 Do periodic testing of real-time lock priority 3101 boosting. Select 0 to disable, 1 to boost 3102 only rt_mutex, and 2 to boost unconditionally. 3103 Defaults to 2, which might seem to be an 3104 odd choice, but which should be harmless for 3105 non-real-time spinlocks, due to their disabling 3106 of preemption. Note that non-realtime mutexes 3107 disable boosting. 3108 3109 locktorture.rt_boost_factor= [KNL] 3110 Number that determines how often and for how 3111 long priority boosting is exercised. This is 3112 scaled down by the number of writers, so that the 3113 number of boosts per unit time remains roughly 3114 constant as the number of writers increases. 3115 On the other hand, the duration of each boost 3116 increases with the number of writers. 3117 3118 locktorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL] 3119 Set task-shuffle interval (jiffies). Shuffling 3120 tasks allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle 3121 mode during the locktorture test. 3122 3123 locktorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL] 3124 Set time (s) after boot system shutdown. This 3125 is useful for hands-off automated testing. 3126 3127 locktorture.stat_interval= [KNL] 3128 Time (s) between statistics printk()s. 3129 3130 locktorture.stutter= [KNL] 3131 Time (s) to stutter testing, for example, 3132 specifying five seconds causes the test to run for 3133 five seconds, wait for five seconds, and so on. 3134 This tests the locking primitive's ability to 3135 transition abruptly to and from idle. 3136 3137 locktorture.torture_type= [KNL] 3138 Specify the locking implementation to test. 3139 3140 locktorture.verbose= [KNL] 3141 Enable additional printk() statements. 3142 3143 locktorture.writer_fifo= [KNL] 3144 Run the write-side locktorture kthreads at 3145 sched_set_fifo() real-time priority. 3146 3147 logibm.irq= [HW,MOUSE] Logitech Bus Mouse Driver 3148 Format: <irq> 3149 3150 loglevel= [KNL,EARLY] 3151 All Kernel Messages with a loglevel smaller than the 3152 console loglevel will be printed to the console. It can 3153 also be changed with klogd or other programs. The 3154 loglevels are defined as follows: 3155 3156 0 (KERN_EMERG) system is unusable 3157 1 (KERN_ALERT) action must be taken immediately 3158 2 (KERN_CRIT) critical conditions 3159 3 (KERN_ERR) error conditions 3160 4 (KERN_WARNING) warning conditions 3161 5 (KERN_NOTICE) normal but significant condition 3162 6 (KERN_INFO) informational 3163 7 (KERN_DEBUG) debug-level messages 3164 3165 log_buf_len=n[KMG] [KNL,EARLY] 3166 Sets the size of the printk ring buffer, in bytes. 3167 n must be a power of two and greater than the 3168 minimal size. The minimal size is defined by 3169 LOG_BUF_SHIFT kernel config parameter. There 3170 is also CONFIG_LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT config 3171 parameter that allows to increase the default size 3172 depending on the number of CPUs. See init/Kconfig 3173 for more details. 3174 3175 logo.nologo [FB] Disables display of the built-in Linux logo. 3176 This may be used to provide more screen space for 3177 kernel log messages and is useful when debugging 3178 kernel boot problems. 3179 3180 lp=0 [LP] Specify parallel ports to use, e.g, 3181 lp=port[,port...] lp=none,parport0 (lp0 not configured, lp1 uses 3182 lp=reset first parallel port). 'lp=0' disables the 3183 lp=auto printer driver. 'lp=reset' (which can be 3184 specified in addition to the ports) causes 3185 attached printers to be reset. Using 3186 lp=port1,port2,... specifies the parallel ports 3187 to associate lp devices with, starting with 3188 lp0. A port specification may be 'none' to skip 3189 that lp device, or a parport name such as 3190 'parport0'. Specifying 'lp=auto' instead of a 3191 port specification list means that device IDs 3192 from each port should be examined, to see if 3193 an IEEE 1284-compliant printer is attached; if 3194 so, the driver will manage that printer. 3195 See also header of drivers/char/lp.c. 3196 3197 lpj=n [KNL] 3198 Sets loops_per_jiffy to given constant, thus avoiding 3199 time-consuming boot-time autodetection (up to 250 ms per 3200 CPU). 0 enables autodetection (default). To determine 3201 the correct value for your kernel, boot with normal 3202 autodetection and see what value is printed. Note that 3203 on SMP systems the preset will be applied to all CPUs, 3204 which is likely to cause problems if your CPUs need 3205 significantly divergent settings. An incorrect value 3206 will cause delays in the kernel to be wrong, leading to 3207 unpredictable I/O errors and other breakage. Although 3208 unlikely, in the extreme case this might damage your 3209 hardware. 3210 3211 lsm.debug [SECURITY] Enable LSM initialization debugging output. 3212 3213 lsm=lsm1,...,lsmN 3214 [SECURITY] Choose order of LSM initialization. This 3215 overrides CONFIG_LSM, and the "security=" parameter. 3216 3217 machtype= [Loongson] Share the same kernel image file between 3218 different yeeloong laptops. 3219 Example: machtype=lemote-yeeloong-2f-7inch 3220 3221 maxcpus= [SMP,EARLY] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel 3222 will bring up during bootup. maxcpus=n : n >= 0 limits 3223 the kernel to bring up 'n' processors. Surely after 3224 bootup you can bring up the other plugged cpu by executing 3225 "echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/online". So maxcpus 3226 only takes effect during system bootup. 3227 While n=0 is a special case, it is equivalent to "nosmp", 3228 which also disables the IO APIC. 3229 3230 max_loop= [LOOP] The number of loop block devices that get 3231 (loop.max_loop) unconditionally pre-created at init time. The default 3232 number is configured by BLK_DEV_LOOP_MIN_COUNT. Instead 3233 of statically allocating a predefined number, loop 3234 devices can be requested on-demand with the 3235 /dev/loop-control interface. 3236 3237 mce [X86-32] Machine Check Exception 3238 3239 mce=option [X86-64] See Documentation/arch/x86/x86_64/boot-options.rst 3240 3241 md= [HW] RAID subsystems devices and level 3242 See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst. 3243 3244 mdacon= [MDA] 3245 Format: <first>,<last> 3246 Specifies range of consoles to be captured by the MDA. 3247 3248 mds= [X86,INTEL,EARLY] 3249 Control mitigation for the Micro-architectural Data 3250 Sampling (MDS) vulnerability. 3251 3252 Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against CPU 3253 internal buffers which can forward information to a 3254 disclosure gadget under certain conditions. 3255 3256 In vulnerable processors, the speculatively 3257 forwarded data can be used in a cache side channel 3258 attack, to access data to which the attacker does 3259 not have direct access. 3260 3261 This parameter controls the MDS mitigation. The 3262 options are: 3263 3264 full - Enable MDS mitigation on vulnerable CPUs 3265 full,nosmt - Enable MDS mitigation and disable 3266 SMT on vulnerable CPUs 3267 off - Unconditionally disable MDS mitigation 3268 3269 On TAA-affected machines, mds=off can be prevented by 3270 an active TAA mitigation as both vulnerabilities are 3271 mitigated with the same mechanism so in order to disable 3272 this mitigation, you need to specify tsx_async_abort=off 3273 too. 3274 3275 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 3276 mds=full. 3277 3278 For details see: Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/mds.rst 3279 3280 mem=nn[KMG] [HEXAGON,EARLY] Set the memory size. 3281 Must be specified, otherwise memory size will be 0. 3282 3283 mem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,EARLY] Force usage of a specific amount 3284 of memory Amount of memory to be used in cases 3285 as follows: 3286 3287 1 for test; 3288 2 when the kernel is not able to see the whole system memory; 3289 3 memory that lies after 'mem=' boundary is excluded from 3290 the hypervisor, then assigned to KVM guests. 3291 4 to limit the memory available for kdump kernel. 3292 3293 [ARC,MICROBLAZE] - the limit applies only to low memory, 3294 high memory is not affected. 3295 3296 [ARM64] - only limits memory covered by the linear 3297 mapping. The NOMAP regions are not affected. 3298 3299 [X86] Work as limiting max address. Use together 3300 with memmap= to avoid physical address space collisions. 3301 Without memmap= PCI devices could be placed at addresses 3302 belonging to unused RAM. 3303 3304 Note that this only takes effects during boot time since 3305 in above case 3, memory may need be hot added after boot 3306 if system memory of hypervisor is not sufficient. 3307 3308 mem=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG] 3309 [ARM,MIPS,EARLY] - override the memory layout 3310 reported by firmware. 3311 Define a memory region of size nn[KMG] starting at 3312 ss[KMG]. 3313 Multiple different regions can be specified with 3314 multiple mem= parameters on the command line. 3315 3316 mem=nopentium [BUGS=X86-32] Disable usage of 4MB pages for kernel 3317 memory. 3318 3319 memblock=debug [KNL,EARLY] Enable memblock debug messages. 3320 3321 memchunk=nn[KMG] 3322 [KNL,SH] Allow user to override the default size for 3323 per-device physically contiguous DMA buffers. 3324 3325 memhp_default_state=online/offline/online_kernel/online_movable 3326 [KNL] Set the initial state for the memory hotplug 3327 onlining policy. If not specified, the default value is 3328 set according to the 3329 CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG_DEFAULT_ONLINE kernel config 3330 option. 3331 See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/memory-hotplug.rst. 3332 3333 memmap=exactmap [KNL,X86,EARLY] Enable setting of an exact 3334 E820 memory map, as specified by the user. 3335 Such memmap=exactmap lines can be constructed based on 3336 BIOS output or other requirements. See the memmap=nn@ss 3337 option description. 3338 3339 memmap=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG] 3340 [KNL, X86,MIPS,XTENSA,EARLY] Force usage of a specific region of memory. 3341 Region of memory to be used is from ss to ss+nn. 3342 If @ss[KMG] is omitted, it is equivalent to mem=nn[KMG], 3343 which limits max address to nn[KMG]. 3344 Multiple different regions can be specified, 3345 comma delimited. 3346 Example: 3347 memmap=100M@2G,100M#3G,1G!1024G 3348 3349 memmap=nn[KMG]#ss[KMG] 3350 [KNL,ACPI,EARLY] Mark specific memory as ACPI data. 3351 Region of memory to be marked is from ss to ss+nn. 3352 3353 memmap=nn[KMG]$ss[KMG] 3354 [KNL,ACPI,EARLY] Mark specific memory as reserved. 3355 Region of memory to be reserved is from ss to ss+nn. 3356 Example: Exclude memory from 0x18690000-0x1869ffff 3357 memmap=64K$0x18690000 3358 or 3359 memmap=0x10000$0x18690000 3360 Some bootloaders may need an escape character before '$', 3361 like Grub2, otherwise '$' and the following number 3362 will be eaten. 3363 3364 memmap=nn[KMG]!ss[KMG,EARLY] 3365 [KNL,X86] Mark specific memory as protected. 3366 Region of memory to be used, from ss to ss+nn. 3367 The memory region may be marked as e820 type 12 (0xc) 3368 and is NVDIMM or ADR memory. 3369 3370 memmap=<size>%<offset>-<oldtype>+<newtype> 3371 [KNL,ACPI,EARLY] Convert memory within the specified region 3372 from <oldtype> to <newtype>. If "-<oldtype>" is left 3373 out, the whole region will be marked as <newtype>, 3374 even if previously unavailable. If "+<newtype>" is left 3375 out, matching memory will be removed. Types are 3376 specified as e820 types, e.g., 1 = RAM, 2 = reserved, 3377 3 = ACPI, 12 = PRAM. 3378 3379 memory_corruption_check=0/1 [X86,EARLY] 3380 Some BIOSes seem to corrupt the first 64k of 3381 memory when doing things like suspend/resume. 3382 Setting this option will scan the memory 3383 looking for corruption. Enabling this will 3384 both detect corruption and prevent the kernel 3385 from using the memory being corrupted. 3386 However, its intended as a diagnostic tool; if 3387 repeatable BIOS-originated corruption always 3388 affects the same memory, you can use memmap= 3389 to prevent the kernel from using that memory. 3390 3391 memory_corruption_check_size=size [X86,EARLY] 3392 By default it checks for corruption in the low 3393 64k, making this memory unavailable for normal 3394 use. Use this parameter to scan for 3395 corruption in more or less memory. 3396 3397 memory_corruption_check_period=seconds [X86,EARLY] 3398 By default it checks for corruption every 60 3399 seconds. Use this parameter to check at some 3400 other rate. 0 disables periodic checking. 3401 3402 memory_hotplug.memmap_on_memory 3403 [KNL,X86,ARM] Boolean flag to enable this feature. 3404 Format: {on | off (default)} 3405 When enabled, runtime hotplugged memory will 3406 allocate its internal metadata (struct pages, 3407 those vmemmap pages cannot be optimized even 3408 if hugetlb_free_vmemmap is enabled) from the 3409 hotadded memory which will allow to hotadd a 3410 lot of memory without requiring additional 3411 memory to do so. 3412 This feature is disabled by default because it 3413 has some implication on large (e.g. GB) 3414 allocations in some configurations (e.g. small 3415 memory blocks). 3416 The state of the flag can be read in 3417 /sys/module/memory_hotplug/parameters/memmap_on_memory. 3418 Note that even when enabled, there are a few cases where 3419 the feature is not effective. 3420 3421 memtest= [KNL,X86,ARM,M68K,PPC,RISCV,EARLY] Enable memtest 3422 Format: <integer> 3423 default : 0 <disable> 3424 Specifies the number of memtest passes to be 3425 performed. Each pass selects another test 3426 pattern from a given set of patterns. Memtest 3427 fills the memory with this pattern, validates 3428 memory contents and reserves bad memory 3429 regions that are detected. 3430 3431 mem_encrypt= [X86-64] AMD Secure Memory Encryption (SME) control 3432 Valid arguments: on, off 3433 Default: off 3434 mem_encrypt=on: Activate SME 3435 mem_encrypt=off: Do not activate SME 3436 3437 Refer to Documentation/virt/kvm/x86/amd-memory-encryption.rst 3438 for details on when memory encryption can be activated. 3439 3440 mem_sleep_default= [SUSPEND] Default system suspend mode: 3441 s2idle - Suspend-To-Idle 3442 shallow - Power-On Suspend or equivalent (if supported) 3443 deep - Suspend-To-RAM or equivalent (if supported) 3444 See Documentation/admin-guide/pm/sleep-states.rst. 3445 3446 mfgptfix [X86-32] Fix MFGPT timers on AMD Geode platforms when 3447 the BIOS has incorrectly applied a workaround. TinyBIOS 3448 version 0.98 is known to be affected, 0.99 fixes the 3449 problem by letting the user disable the workaround. 3450 3451 mga= [HW,DRM] 3452 3453 microcode.force_minrev= [X86] 3454 Format: <bool> 3455 Enable or disable the microcode minimal revision 3456 enforcement for the runtime microcode loader. 3457 3458 mini2440= [ARM,HW,KNL] 3459 Format:[0..2][b][c][t] 3460 Default: "0tb" 3461 MINI2440 configuration specification: 3462 0 - The attached screen is the 3.5" TFT 3463 1 - The attached screen is the 7" TFT 3464 2 - The VGA Shield is attached (1024x768) 3465 Leaving out the screen size parameter will not load 3466 the TFT driver, and the framebuffer will be left 3467 unconfigured. 3468 b - Enable backlight. The TFT backlight pin will be 3469 linked to the kernel VESA blanking code and a GPIO 3470 LED. This parameter is not necessary when using the 3471 VGA shield. 3472 c - Enable the s3c camera interface. 3473 t - Reserved for enabling touchscreen support. The 3474 touchscreen support is not enabled in the mainstream 3475 kernel as of 2.6.30, a preliminary port can be found 3476 in the "bleeding edge" mini2440 support kernel at 3477 https://repo.or.cz/w/linux-2.6/mini2440.git 3478 3479 mitigations= 3480 [X86,PPC,S390,ARM64,EARLY] Control optional mitigations for 3481 CPU vulnerabilities. This is a set of curated, 3482 arch-independent options, each of which is an 3483 aggregation of existing arch-specific options. 3484 3485 Note, "mitigations" is supported if and only if the 3486 kernel was built with CPU_MITIGATIONS=y. 3487 3488 off 3489 Disable all optional CPU mitigations. This 3490 improves system performance, but it may also 3491 expose users to several CPU vulnerabilities. 3492 Equivalent to: if nokaslr then kpti=0 [ARM64] 3493 gather_data_sampling=off [X86] 3494 kvm.nx_huge_pages=off [X86] 3495 l1tf=off [X86] 3496 mds=off [X86] 3497 mmio_stale_data=off [X86] 3498 no_entry_flush [PPC] 3499 no_uaccess_flush [PPC] 3500 nobp=0 [S390] 3501 nopti [X86,PPC] 3502 nospectre_bhb [ARM64] 3503 nospectre_v1 [X86,PPC] 3504 nospectre_v2 [X86,PPC,S390,ARM64] 3505 reg_file_data_sampling=off [X86] 3506 retbleed=off [X86] 3507 spec_rstack_overflow=off [X86] 3508 spec_store_bypass_disable=off [X86,PPC] 3509 spectre_bhi=off [X86] 3510 spectre_v2_user=off [X86] 3511 srbds=off [X86,INTEL] 3512 ssbd=force-off [ARM64] 3513 tsx_async_abort=off [X86] 3514 3515 Exceptions: 3516 This does not have any effect on 3517 kvm.nx_huge_pages when 3518 kvm.nx_huge_pages=force. 3519 3520 auto (default) 3521 Mitigate all CPU vulnerabilities, but leave SMT 3522 enabled, even if it's vulnerable. This is for 3523 users who don't want to be surprised by SMT 3524 getting disabled across kernel upgrades, or who 3525 have other ways of avoiding SMT-based attacks. 3526 Equivalent to: (default behavior) 3527 3528 auto,nosmt 3529 Mitigate all CPU vulnerabilities, disabling SMT 3530 if needed. This is for users who always want to 3531 be fully mitigated, even if it means losing SMT. 3532 Equivalent to: l1tf=flush,nosmt [X86] 3533 mds=full,nosmt [X86] 3534 tsx_async_abort=full,nosmt [X86] 3535 mmio_stale_data=full,nosmt [X86] 3536 retbleed=auto,nosmt [X86] 3537 3538 mminit_loglevel= 3539 [KNL,EARLY] When CONFIG_DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT is set, this 3540 parameter allows control of the logging verbosity for 3541 the additional memory initialisation checks. A value 3542 of 0 disables mminit logging and a level of 4 will 3543 log everything. Information is printed at KERN_DEBUG 3544 so loglevel=8 may also need to be specified. 3545 3546 mmio_stale_data= 3547 [X86,INTEL,EARLY] Control mitigation for the Processor 3548 MMIO Stale Data vulnerabilities. 3549 3550 Processor MMIO Stale Data is a class of 3551 vulnerabilities that may expose data after an MMIO 3552 operation. Exposed data could originate or end in 3553 the same CPU buffers as affected by MDS and TAA. 3554 Therefore, similar to MDS and TAA, the mitigation 3555 is to clear the affected CPU buffers. 3556 3557 This parameter controls the mitigation. The 3558 options are: 3559 3560 full - Enable mitigation on vulnerable CPUs 3561 3562 full,nosmt - Enable mitigation and disable SMT on 3563 vulnerable CPUs. 3564 3565 off - Unconditionally disable mitigation 3566 3567 On MDS or TAA affected machines, 3568 mmio_stale_data=off can be prevented by an active 3569 MDS or TAA mitigation as these vulnerabilities are 3570 mitigated with the same mechanism so in order to 3571 disable this mitigation, you need to specify 3572 mds=off and tsx_async_abort=off too. 3573 3574 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 3575 mmio_stale_data=full. 3576 3577 For details see: 3578 Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/processor_mmio_stale_data.rst 3579 3580 <module>.async_probe[=<bool>] [KNL] 3581 If no <bool> value is specified or if the value 3582 specified is not a valid <bool>, enable asynchronous 3583 probe on this module. Otherwise, enable/disable 3584 asynchronous probe on this module as indicated by the 3585 <bool> value. See also: module.async_probe 3586 3587 module.async_probe=<bool> 3588 [KNL] When set to true, modules will use async probing 3589 by default. To enable/disable async probing for a 3590 specific module, use the module specific control that 3591 is documented under <module>.async_probe. When both 3592 module.async_probe and <module>.async_probe are 3593 specified, <module>.async_probe takes precedence for 3594 the specific module. 3595 3596 module.enable_dups_trace 3597 [KNL] When CONFIG_MODULE_DEBUG_AUTOLOAD_DUPS is set, 3598 this means that duplicate request_module() calls will 3599 trigger a WARN_ON() instead of a pr_warn(). Note that 3600 if MODULE_DEBUG_AUTOLOAD_DUPS_TRACE is set, WARN_ON()s 3601 will always be issued and this option does nothing. 3602 module.sig_enforce 3603 [KNL] When CONFIG_MODULE_SIG is set, this means that 3604 modules without (valid) signatures will fail to load. 3605 Note that if CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_FORCE is set, that 3606 is always true, so this option does nothing. 3607 3608 module_blacklist= [KNL] Do not load a comma-separated list of 3609 modules. Useful for debugging problem modules. 3610 3611 mousedev.tap_time= 3612 [MOUSE] Maximum time between finger touching and 3613 leaving touchpad surface for touch to be considered 3614 a tap and be reported as a left button click (for 3615 touchpads working in absolute mode only). 3616 Format: <msecs> 3617 mousedev.xres= [MOUSE] Horizontal screen resolution, used for devices 3618 reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets 3619 mousedev.yres= [MOUSE] Vertical screen resolution, used for devices 3620 reporting absolute coordinates, such as tablets 3621 3622 movablecore= [KNL,X86,PPC,EARLY] 3623 Format: nn[KMGTPE] | nn% 3624 This parameter is the complement to kernelcore=, it 3625 specifies the amount of memory used for migratable 3626 allocations. If both kernelcore and movablecore is 3627 specified, then kernelcore will be at *least* the 3628 specified value but may be more. If movablecore on its 3629 own is specified, the administrator must be careful 3630 that the amount of memory usable for all allocations 3631 is not too small. 3632 3633 movable_node [KNL,EARLY] Boot-time switch to make hotplugable memory 3634 NUMA nodes to be movable. This means that the memory 3635 of such nodes will be usable only for movable 3636 allocations which rules out almost all kernel 3637 allocations. Use with caution! 3638 3639 MTD_Partition= [MTD] 3640 Format: <name>,<region-number>,<size>,<offset> 3641 3642 MTD_Region= [MTD] Format: 3643 <name>,<region-number>[,<base>,<size>,<buswidth>,<altbuswidth>] 3644 3645 mtdparts= [MTD] 3646 See drivers/mtd/parsers/cmdlinepart.c 3647 3648 mtouchusb.raw_coordinates= 3649 [HW] Make the MicroTouch USB driver use raw coordinates 3650 ('y', default) or cooked coordinates ('n') 3651 3652 mtrr=debug [X86,EARLY] 3653 Enable printing debug information related to MTRR 3654 registers at boot time. 3655 3656 mtrr_chunk_size=nn[KMG,X86,EARLY] 3657 used for mtrr cleanup. It is largest continuous chunk 3658 that could hold holes aka. UC entries. 3659 3660 mtrr_gran_size=nn[KMG,X86,EARLY] 3661 Used for mtrr cleanup. It is granularity of mtrr block. 3662 Default is 1. 3663 Large value could prevent small alignment from 3664 using up MTRRs. 3665 3666 mtrr_spare_reg_nr=n [X86,EARLY] 3667 Format: <integer> 3668 Range: 0,7 : spare reg number 3669 Default : 1 3670 Used for mtrr cleanup. It is spare mtrr entries number. 3671 Set to 2 or more if your graphical card needs more. 3672 3673 multitce=off [PPC] This parameter disables the use of the pSeries 3674 firmware feature for updating multiple TCE entries 3675 at a time. 3676 3677 n2= [NET] SDL Inc. RISCom/N2 synchronous serial card 3678 3679 netdev= [NET] Network devices parameters 3680 Format: <irq>,<io>,<mem_start>,<mem_end>,<name> 3681 Note that mem_start is often overloaded to mean 3682 something different and driver-specific. 3683 This usage is only documented in each driver source 3684 file if at all. 3685 3686 netpoll.carrier_timeout= 3687 [NET] Specifies amount of time (in seconds) that 3688 netpoll should wait for a carrier. By default netpoll 3689 waits 4 seconds. 3690 3691 nf_conntrack.acct= 3692 [NETFILTER] Enable connection tracking flow accounting 3693 0 to disable accounting 3694 1 to enable accounting 3695 Default value is 0. 3696 3697 nfs.cache_getent= 3698 [NFS] sets the pathname to the program which is used 3699 to update the NFS client cache entries. 3700 3701 nfs.cache_getent_timeout= 3702 [NFS] sets the timeout after which an attempt to 3703 update a cache entry is deemed to have failed. 3704 3705 nfs.callback_nr_threads= 3706 [NFSv4] set the total number of threads that the 3707 NFS client will assign to service NFSv4 callback 3708 requests. 3709 3710 nfs.callback_tcpport= 3711 [NFS] set the TCP port on which the NFSv4 callback 3712 channel should listen. 3713 3714 nfs.delay_retrans= 3715 [NFS] specifies the number of times the NFSv4 client 3716 retries the request before returning an EAGAIN error, 3717 after a reply of NFS4ERR_DELAY from the server. 3718 Only applies if the softerr mount option is enabled, 3719 and the specified value is >= 0. 3720 3721 nfs.enable_ino64= 3722 [NFS] enable 64-bit inode numbers. 3723 If zero, the NFS client will fake up a 32-bit inode 3724 number for the readdir() and stat() syscalls instead 3725 of returning the full 64-bit number. 3726 The default is to return 64-bit inode numbers. 3727 3728 nfs.idmap_cache_timeout= 3729 [NFS] set the maximum lifetime for idmapper cache 3730 entries. 3731 3732 nfs.max_session_cb_slots= 3733 [NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session 3734 slots the client will assign to the callback 3735 channel. This determines the maximum number of 3736 callbacks the client will process in parallel for 3737 a particular server. 3738 3739 nfs.max_session_slots= 3740 [NFSv4.1] Sets the maximum number of session slots 3741 the client will attempt to negotiate with the server. 3742 This limits the number of simultaneous RPC requests 3743 that the client can send to the NFSv4.1 server. 3744 Note that there is little point in setting this 3745 value higher than the max_tcp_slot_table_limit. 3746 3747 nfs.nfs4_disable_idmapping= 3748 [NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', this option 3749 ensures that both the RPC level authentication 3750 scheme and the NFS level operations agree to use 3751 numeric uids/gids if the mount is using the 3752 'sec=sys' security flavour. In effect it is 3753 disabling idmapping, which can make migration from 3754 legacy NFSv2/v3 systems to NFSv4 easier. 3755 Servers that do not support this mode of operation 3756 will be autodetected by the client, and it will fall 3757 back to using the idmapper. 3758 To turn off this behaviour, set the value to '0'. 3759 3760 nfs.nfs4_unique_id= 3761 [NFS4] Specify an additional fixed unique ident- 3762 ification string that NFSv4 clients can insert into 3763 their nfs_client_id4 string. This is typically a 3764 UUID that is generated at system install time. 3765 3766 nfs.recover_lost_locks= 3767 [NFSv4] Attempt to recover locks that were lost due 3768 to a lease timeout on the server. Please note that 3769 doing this risks data corruption, since there are 3770 no guarantees that the file will remain unchanged 3771 after the locks are lost. 3772 If you want to enable the kernel legacy behaviour of 3773 attempting to recover these locks, then set this 3774 parameter to '1'. 3775 The default parameter value of '0' causes the kernel 3776 not to attempt recovery of lost locks. 3777 3778 nfs.send_implementation_id= 3779 [NFSv4.1] Send client implementation identification 3780 information in exchange_id requests. 3781 If zero, no implementation identification information 3782 will be sent. 3783 The default is to send the implementation identification 3784 information. 3785 3786 nfs4.layoutstats_timer= 3787 [NFSv4.2] Change the rate at which the kernel sends 3788 layoutstats to the pNFS metadata server. 3789 3790 Setting this to value to 0 causes the kernel to use 3791 whatever value is the default set by the layout 3792 driver. A non-zero value sets the minimum interval 3793 in seconds between layoutstats transmissions. 3794 3795 nfsd.inter_copy_offload_enable= 3796 [NFSv4.2] When set to 1, the server will support 3797 server-to-server copies for which this server is 3798 the destination of the copy. 3799 3800 nfsd.nfs4_disable_idmapping= 3801 [NFSv4] When set to the default of '1', the NFSv4 3802 server will return only numeric uids and gids to 3803 clients using auth_sys, and will accept numeric uids 3804 and gids from such clients. This is intended to ease 3805 migration from NFSv2/v3. 3806 3807 nfsd.nfsd4_ssc_umount_timeout= 3808 [NFSv4.2] When used as the destination of a 3809 server-to-server copy, knfsd temporarily mounts 3810 the source server. It caches the mount in case 3811 it will be needed again, and discards it if not 3812 used for the number of milliseconds specified by 3813 this parameter. 3814 3815 nfsaddrs= [NFS] Deprecated. Use ip= instead. 3816 See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst. 3817 3818 nfsroot= [NFS] nfs root filesystem for disk-less boxes. 3819 See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst. 3820 3821 nfsrootdebug [NFS] enable nfsroot debugging messages. 3822 See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst. 3823 3824 nmi_backtrace.backtrace_idle [KNL] 3825 Dump stacks even of idle CPUs in response to an 3826 NMI stack-backtrace request. 3827 3828 nmi_debug= [KNL,SH] Specify one or more actions to take 3829 when a NMI is triggered. 3830 Format: [state][,regs][,debounce][,die] 3831 3832 nmi_watchdog= [KNL,BUGS=X86] Debugging features for SMP kernels 3833 Format: [panic,][nopanic,][rNNN,][num] 3834 Valid num: 0 or 1 3835 0 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog off 3836 1 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog on 3837 rNNN - configure the watchdog with raw perf event 0xNNN 3838 3839 When panic is specified, panic when an NMI watchdog 3840 timeout occurs (or 'nopanic' to not panic on an NMI 3841 watchdog, if CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC is set) 3842 To disable both hard and soft lockup detectors, 3843 please see 'nowatchdog'. 3844 This is useful when you use a panic=... timeout and 3845 need the box quickly up again. 3846 3847 These settings can be accessed at runtime via 3848 the nmi_watchdog and hardlockup_panic sysctls. 3849 3850 no387 [BUGS=X86-32] Tells the kernel to use the 387 maths 3851 emulation library even if a 387 maths coprocessor 3852 is present. 3853 3854 no4lvl [RISCV,EARLY] Disable 4-level and 5-level paging modes. 3855 Forces kernel to use 3-level paging instead. 3856 3857 no5lvl [X86-64,RISCV,EARLY] Disable 5-level paging mode. Forces 3858 kernel to use 4-level paging instead. 3859 3860 noalign [KNL,ARM] 3861 3862 noapic [SMP,APIC,EARLY] Tells the kernel to not make use of any 3863 IOAPICs that may be present in the system. 3864 3865 noautogroup Disable scheduler automatic task group creation. 3866 3867 nocache [ARM,EARLY] 3868 3869 no_console_suspend 3870 [HW] Never suspend the console 3871 Disable suspending of consoles during suspend and 3872 hibernate operations. Once disabled, debugging 3873 messages can reach various consoles while the rest 3874 of the system is being put to sleep (ie, while 3875 debugging driver suspend/resume hooks). This may 3876 not work reliably with all consoles, but is known 3877 to work with serial and VGA consoles. 3878 To facilitate more flexible debugging, we also add 3879 console_suspend, a printk module parameter to control 3880 it. Users could use console_suspend (usually 3881 /sys/module/printk/parameters/console_suspend) to 3882 turn on/off it dynamically. 3883 3884 no_debug_objects 3885 [KNL,EARLY] Disable object debugging 3886 3887 nodsp [SH] Disable hardware DSP at boot time. 3888 3889 noefi [EFI,EARLY] Disable EFI runtime services support. 3890 3891 no_entry_flush [PPC,EARLY] Don't flush the L1-D cache when entering the kernel. 3892 3893 noexec32 [X86-64] 3894 This affects only 32-bit executables. 3895 noexec32=on: enable non-executable mappings (default) 3896 read doesn't imply executable mappings 3897 noexec32=off: disable non-executable mappings 3898 read implies executable mappings 3899 3900 no_file_caps Tells the kernel not to honor file capabilities. The 3901 only way then for a file to be executed with privilege 3902 is to be setuid root or executed by root. 3903 3904 nofpu [MIPS,SH] Disable hardware FPU at boot time. 3905 3906 nofsgsbase [X86] Disables FSGSBASE instructions. 3907 3908 nofxsr [BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 floating point extended 3909 register save and restore. The kernel will only save 3910 legacy floating-point registers on task switch. 3911 3912 no_hash_pointers 3913 [KNL,EARLY] 3914 Force pointers printed to the console or buffers to be 3915 unhashed. By default, when a pointer is printed via %p 3916 format string, that pointer is "hashed", i.e. obscured 3917 by hashing the pointer value. This is a security feature 3918 that hides actual kernel addresses from unprivileged 3919 users, but it also makes debugging the kernel more 3920 difficult since unequal pointers can no longer be 3921 compared. However, if this command-line option is 3922 specified, then all normal pointers will have their true 3923 value printed. This option should only be specified when 3924 debugging the kernel. Please do not use on production 3925 kernels. 3926 3927 nohibernate [HIBERNATION] Disable hibernation and resume. 3928 3929 nohlt [ARM,ARM64,MICROBLAZE,MIPS,PPC,RISCV,SH] Forces the kernel to 3930 busy wait in do_idle() and not use the arch_cpu_idle() 3931 implementation; requires CONFIG_GENERIC_IDLE_POLL_SETUP 3932 to be effective. This is useful on platforms where the 3933 sleep(SH) or wfi(ARM,ARM64) instructions do not work 3934 correctly or when doing power measurements to evaluate 3935 the impact of the sleep instructions. This is also 3936 useful when using JTAG debugger. 3937 3938 nohugeiomap [KNL,X86,PPC,ARM64,EARLY] Disable kernel huge I/O mappings. 3939 3940 nohugevmalloc [KNL,X86,PPC,ARM64,EARLY] Disable kernel huge vmalloc mappings. 3941 3942 nohz= [KNL] Boottime enable/disable dynamic ticks 3943 Valid arguments: on, off 3944 Default: on 3945 3946 nohz_full= [KNL,BOOT,SMP,ISOL] 3947 The argument is a cpu list, as described above. 3948 In kernels built with CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL=y, set 3949 the specified list of CPUs whose tick will be stopped 3950 whenever possible. The boot CPU will be forced outside 3951 the range to maintain the timekeeping. Any CPUs 3952 in this list will have their RCU callbacks offloaded, 3953 just as if they had also been called out in the 3954 rcu_nocbs= boot parameter. 3955 3956 Note that this argument takes precedence over 3957 the CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU_DEFAULT_ALL option. 3958 3959 noinitrd [RAM] Tells the kernel not to load any configured 3960 initial RAM disk. 3961 3962 nointremap [X86-64,Intel-IOMMU,EARLY] Do not enable interrupt 3963 remapping. 3964 [Deprecated - use intremap=off] 3965 3966 noinvpcid [X86,EARLY] Disable the INVPCID cpu feature. 3967 3968 noiotrap [SH] Disables trapped I/O port accesses. 3969 3970 noirqdebug [X86-32] Disables the code which attempts to detect and 3971 disable unhandled interrupt sources. 3972 3973 noisapnp [ISAPNP] Disables ISA PnP code. 3974 3975 nokaslr [KNL,EARLY] 3976 When CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE is set, this disables 3977 kernel and module base offset ASLR (Address Space 3978 Layout Randomization). 3979 3980 no-kvmapf [X86,KVM,EARLY] Disable paravirtualized asynchronous page 3981 fault handling. 3982 3983 no-kvmclock [X86,KVM,EARLY] Disable paravirtualized KVM clock driver 3984 3985 nolapic [X86-32,APIC,EARLY] Do not enable or use the local APIC. 3986 3987 nolapic_timer [X86-32,APIC,EARLY] Do not use the local APIC timer. 3988 3989 nomce [X86-32] Disable Machine Check Exception 3990 3991 nomfgpt [X86-32] Disable Multi-Function General Purpose 3992 Timer usage (for AMD Geode machines). 3993 3994 nomodeset Disable kernel modesetting. Most systems' firmware 3995 sets up a display mode and provides framebuffer memory 3996 for output. With nomodeset, DRM and fbdev drivers will 3997 not load if they could possibly displace the pre- 3998 initialized output. Only the system framebuffer will 3999 be available for use. The respective drivers will not 4000 perform display-mode changes or accelerated rendering. 4001 4002 Useful as error fallback, or for testing and debugging. 4003 4004 nomodule Disable module load 4005 4006 nonmi_ipi [X86] Disable using NMI IPIs during panic/reboot to 4007 shutdown the other cpus. Instead use the REBOOT_VECTOR 4008 irq. 4009 4010 nopat [X86,EARLY] Disable PAT (page attribute table extension of 4011 pagetables) support. 4012 4013 nopcid [X86-64,EARLY] Disable the PCID cpu feature. 4014 4015 nopku [X86] Disable Memory Protection Keys CPU feature found 4016 in some Intel CPUs. 4017 4018 nopti [X86-64,EARLY] 4019 Equivalent to pti=off 4020 4021 nopv= [X86,XEN,KVM,HYPER_V,VMWARE,EARLY] 4022 Disables the PV optimizations forcing the guest to run 4023 as generic guest with no PV drivers. Currently support 4024 XEN HVM, KVM, HYPER_V and VMWARE guest. 4025 4026 nopvspin [X86,XEN,KVM,EARLY] 4027 Disables the qspinlock slow path using PV optimizations 4028 which allow the hypervisor to 'idle' the guest on lock 4029 contention. 4030 4031 norandmaps Don't use address space randomization. Equivalent to 4032 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space 4033 4034 noreplace-smp [X86-32,SMP] Don't replace SMP instructions 4035 with UP alternatives 4036 4037 noresume [SWSUSP] Disables resume and restores original swap 4038 space. 4039 4040 no-scroll [VGA] Disables scrollback. 4041 This is required for the Braillex ib80-piezo Braille 4042 reader made by F.H. Papenmeier (Germany). 4043 4044 nosgx [X86-64,SGX,EARLY] Disables Intel SGX kernel support. 4045 4046 nosmap [PPC,EARLY] 4047 Disable SMAP (Supervisor Mode Access Prevention) 4048 even if it is supported by processor. 4049 4050 nosmep [PPC64s,EARLY] 4051 Disable SMEP (Supervisor Mode Execution Prevention) 4052 even if it is supported by processor. 4053 4054 nosmp [SMP,EARLY] Tells an SMP kernel to act as a UP kernel, 4055 and disable the IO APIC. legacy for "maxcpus=0". 4056 4057 nosmt [KNL,MIPS,PPC,S390,EARLY] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT). 4058 Equivalent to smt=1. 4059 4060 [KNL,X86,PPC] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT). 4061 nosmt=force: Force disable SMT, cannot be undone 4062 via the sysfs control file. 4063 4064 nosoftlockup [KNL] Disable the soft-lockup detector. 4065 4066 nospec_store_bypass_disable 4067 [HW,EARLY] Disable all mitigations for the Speculative 4068 Store Bypass vulnerability 4069 4070 nospectre_bhb [ARM64,EARLY] Disable all mitigations for Spectre-BHB (branch 4071 history injection) vulnerability. System may allow data leaks 4072 with this option. 4073 4074 nospectre_v1 [X86,PPC,EARLY] Disable mitigations for Spectre Variant 1 4075 (bounds check bypass). With this option data leaks are 4076 possible in the system. 4077 4078 nospectre_v2 [X86,PPC_E500,ARM64,EARLY] Disable all mitigations 4079 for the Spectre variant 2 (indirect branch 4080 prediction) vulnerability. System may allow data 4081 leaks with this option. 4082 4083 no-steal-acc [X86,PV_OPS,ARM64,PPC/PSERIES,RISCV,LOONGARCH,EARLY] 4084 Disable paravirtualized steal time accounting. steal time 4085 is computed, but won't influence scheduler behaviour 4086 4087 nosync [HW,M68K] Disables sync negotiation for all devices. 4088 4089 no_timer_check [X86,APIC] Disables the code which tests for 4090 broken timer IRQ sources. 4091 4092 no_uaccess_flush 4093 [PPC,EARLY] Don't flush the L1-D cache after accessing user data. 4094 4095 novmcoredd [KNL,KDUMP] 4096 Disable device dump. Device dump allows drivers to 4097 append dump data to vmcore so you can collect driver 4098 specified debug info. Drivers can append the data 4099 without any limit and this data is stored in memory, 4100 so this may cause significant memory stress. Disabling 4101 device dump can help save memory but the driver debug 4102 data will be no longer available. This parameter 4103 is only available when CONFIG_PROC_VMCORE_DEVICE_DUMP 4104 is set. 4105 4106 no-vmw-sched-clock 4107 [X86,PV_OPS,EARLY] Disable paravirtualized VMware 4108 scheduler clock and use the default one. 4109 4110 nowatchdog [KNL] Disable both lockup detectors, i.e. 4111 soft-lockup and NMI watchdog (hard-lockup). 4112 4113 nowb [ARM,EARLY] 4114 4115 nox2apic [X86-64,APIC,EARLY] Do not enable x2APIC mode. 4116 4117 NOTE: this parameter will be ignored on systems with the 4118 LEGACY_XAPIC_DISABLED bit set in the 4119 IA32_XAPIC_DISABLE_STATUS MSR. 4120 4121 noxsave [BUGS=X86] Disables x86 extended register state save 4122 and restore using xsave. The kernel will fallback to 4123 enabling legacy floating-point and sse state. 4124 4125 noxsaveopt [X86] Disables xsaveopt used in saving x86 extended 4126 register states. The kernel will fall back to use 4127 xsave to save the states. By using this parameter, 4128 performance of saving the states is degraded because 4129 xsave doesn't support modified optimization while 4130 xsaveopt supports it on xsaveopt enabled systems. 4131 4132 noxsaves [X86] Disables xsaves and xrstors used in saving and 4133 restoring x86 extended register state in compacted 4134 form of xsave area. The kernel will fall back to use 4135 xsaveopt and xrstor to save and restore the states 4136 in standard form of xsave area. By using this 4137 parameter, xsave area per process might occupy more 4138 memory on xsaves enabled systems. 4139 4140 nr_cpus= [SMP,EARLY] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel 4141 could support. nr_cpus=n : n >= 1 limits the kernel to 4142 support 'n' processors. It could be larger than the 4143 number of already plugged CPU during bootup, later in 4144 runtime you can physically add extra cpu until it reaches 4145 n. So during boot up some boot time memory for per-cpu 4146 variables need be pre-allocated for later physical cpu 4147 hot plugging. 4148 4149 nr_uarts= [SERIAL] maximum number of UARTs to be registered. 4150 4151 numa=off [KNL, ARM64, PPC, RISCV, SPARC, X86, EARLY] 4152 Disable NUMA, Only set up a single NUMA node 4153 spanning all memory. 4154 4155 numa_balancing= [KNL,ARM64,PPC,RISCV,S390,X86] Enable or disable automatic 4156 NUMA balancing. 4157 Allowed values are enable and disable 4158 4159 numa_zonelist_order= [KNL, BOOT] Select zonelist order for NUMA. 4160 'node', 'default' can be specified 4161 This can be set from sysctl after boot. 4162 See Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst for details. 4163 4164 ohci1394_dma=early [HW,EARLY] enable debugging via the ohci1394 driver. 4165 See Documentation/core-api/debugging-via-ohci1394.rst for more 4166 info. 4167 4168 olpc_ec_timeout= [OLPC] ms delay when issuing EC commands 4169 Rather than timing out after 20 ms if an EC 4170 command is not properly ACKed, override the length 4171 of the timeout. We have interrupts disabled while 4172 waiting for the ACK, so if this is set too high 4173 interrupts *may* be lost! 4174 4175 omap_mux= [OMAP] Override bootloader pin multiplexing. 4176 Format: <mux_mode0.mode_name=value>... 4177 For example, to override I2C bus2: 4178 omap_mux=i2c2_scl.i2c2_scl=0x100,i2c2_sda.i2c2_sda=0x100 4179 4180 onenand.bdry= [HW,MTD] Flex-OneNAND Boundary Configuration 4181 4182 Format: [die0_boundary][,die0_lock][,die1_boundary][,die1_lock] 4183 4184 boundary - index of last SLC block on Flex-OneNAND. 4185 The remaining blocks are configured as MLC blocks. 4186 lock - Configure if Flex-OneNAND boundary should be locked. 4187 Once locked, the boundary cannot be changed. 4188 1 indicates lock status, 0 indicates unlock status. 4189 4190 oops=panic [KNL,EARLY] 4191 Always panic on oopses. Default is to just kill the 4192 process, but there is a small probability of 4193 deadlocking the machine. 4194 This will also cause panics on machine check exceptions. 4195 Useful together with panic=30 to trigger a reboot. 4196 4197 page_alloc.shuffle= 4198 [KNL] Boolean flag to control whether the page allocator 4199 should randomize its free lists. This parameter can be 4200 used to enable/disable page randomization. The state of 4201 the flag can be read from sysfs at: 4202 /sys/module/page_alloc/parameters/shuffle. 4203 This parameter is only available if CONFIG_SHUFFLE_PAGE_ALLOCATOR=y. 4204 4205 page_owner= [KNL,EARLY] Boot-time page_owner enabling option. 4206 Storage of the information about who allocated 4207 each page is disabled in default. With this switch, 4208 we can turn it on. 4209 on: enable the feature 4210 4211 page_poison= [KNL,EARLY] Boot-time parameter changing the state of 4212 poisoning on the buddy allocator, available with 4213 CONFIG_PAGE_POISONING=y. 4214 off: turn off poisoning (default) 4215 on: turn on poisoning 4216 4217 page_reporting.page_reporting_order= 4218 [KNL] Minimal page reporting order 4219 Format: <integer> 4220 Adjust the minimal page reporting order. The page 4221 reporting is disabled when it exceeds MAX_PAGE_ORDER. 4222 4223 panic= [KNL] Kernel behaviour on panic: delay <timeout> 4224 timeout > 0: seconds before rebooting 4225 timeout = 0: wait forever 4226 timeout < 0: reboot immediately 4227 Format: <timeout> 4228 4229 panic_on_taint= [KNL,EARLY] 4230 Bitmask for conditionally calling panic() in add_taint() 4231 Format: <hex>[,nousertaint] 4232 Hexadecimal bitmask representing the set of TAINT flags 4233 that will cause the kernel to panic when add_taint() is 4234 called with any of the flags in this set. 4235 The optional switch "nousertaint" can be utilized to 4236 prevent userspace forced crashes by writing to sysctl 4237 /proc/sys/kernel/tainted any flagset matching with the 4238 bitmask set on panic_on_taint. 4239 See Documentation/admin-guide/tainted-kernels.rst for 4240 extra details on the taint flags that users can pick 4241 to compose the bitmask to assign to panic_on_taint. 4242 4243 panic_on_warn=1 panic() instead of WARN(). Useful to cause kdump 4244 on a WARN(). 4245 4246 panic_print= Bitmask for printing system info when panic happens. 4247 User can chose combination of the following bits: 4248 bit 0: print all tasks info 4249 bit 1: print system memory info 4250 bit 2: print timer info 4251 bit 3: print locks info if CONFIG_LOCKDEP is on 4252 bit 4: print ftrace buffer 4253 bit 5: print all printk messages in buffer 4254 bit 6: print all CPUs backtrace (if available in the arch) 4255 bit 7: print only tasks in uninterruptible (blocked) state 4256 *Be aware* that this option may print a _lot_ of lines, 4257 so there are risks of losing older messages in the log. 4258 Use this option carefully, maybe worth to setup a 4259 bigger log buffer with "log_buf_len" along with this. 4260 4261 parkbd.port= [HW] Parallel port number the keyboard adapter is 4262 connected to, default is 0. 4263 Format: <parport#> 4264 parkbd.mode= [HW] Parallel port keyboard adapter mode of operation, 4265 0 for XT, 1 for AT (default is AT). 4266 Format: <mode> 4267 4268 parport= [HW,PPT] Specify parallel ports. 0 disables. 4269 Format: { 0 | auto | 0xBBB[,IRQ[,DMA]] } 4270 Use 'auto' to force the driver to use any 4271 IRQ/DMA settings detected (the default is to 4272 ignore detected IRQ/DMA settings because of 4273 possible conflicts). You can specify the base 4274 address, IRQ, and DMA settings; IRQ and DMA 4275 should be numbers, or 'auto' (for using detected 4276 settings on that particular port), or 'nofifo' 4277 (to avoid using a FIFO even if it is detected). 4278 Parallel ports are assigned in the order they 4279 are specified on the command line, starting 4280 with parport0. 4281 4282 parport_init_mode= [HW,PPT] 4283 Configure VIA parallel port to operate in 4284 a specific mode. This is necessary on Pegasos 4285 computer where firmware has no options for setting 4286 up parallel port mode and sets it to spp. 4287 Currently this function knows 686a and 8231 chips. 4288 Format: [spp|ps2|epp|ecp|ecpepp] 4289 4290 pata_legacy.all= [HW,LIBATA] 4291 Format: <int> 4292 Set to non-zero to probe primary and secondary ISA 4293 port ranges on PCI systems where no PCI PATA device 4294 has been found at either range. Disabled by default. 4295 4296 pata_legacy.autospeed= [HW,LIBATA] 4297 Format: <int> 4298 Set to non-zero if a chip is present that snoops speed 4299 changes. Disabled by default. 4300 4301 pata_legacy.ht6560a= [HW,LIBATA] 4302 Format: <int> 4303 Set to 1, 2, or 3 for HT 6560A on the primary channel, 4304 the secondary channel, or both channels respectively. 4305 Disabled by default. 4306 4307 pata_legacy.ht6560b= [HW,LIBATA] 4308 Format: <int> 4309 Set to 1, 2, or 3 for HT 6560B on the primary channel, 4310 the secondary channel, or both channels respectively. 4311 Disabled by default. 4312 4313 pata_legacy.iordy_mask= [HW,LIBATA] 4314 Format: <int> 4315 IORDY enable mask. Set individual bits to allow IORDY 4316 for the respective channel. Bit 0 is for the first 4317 legacy channel handled by this driver, bit 1 is for 4318 the second channel, and so on. The sequence will often 4319 correspond to the primary legacy channel, the secondary 4320 legacy channel, and so on, but the handling of a PCI 4321 bus and the use of other driver options may interfere 4322 with the sequence. By default IORDY is allowed across 4323 all channels. 4324 4325 pata_legacy.opti82c46x= [HW,LIBATA] 4326 Format: <int> 4327 Set to 1, 2, or 3 for Opti 82c611A on the primary 4328 channel, the secondary channel, or both channels 4329 respectively. Disabled by default. 4330 4331 pata_legacy.opti82c611a= [HW,LIBATA] 4332 Format: <int> 4333 Set to 1, 2, or 3 for Opti 82c465MV on the primary 4334 channel, the secondary channel, or both channels 4335 respectively. Disabled by default. 4336 4337 pata_legacy.pio_mask= [HW,LIBATA] 4338 Format: <int> 4339 PIO mode mask for autospeed devices. Set individual 4340 bits to allow the use of the respective PIO modes. 4341 Bit 0 is for mode 0, bit 1 is for mode 1, and so on. 4342 All modes allowed by default. 4343 4344 pata_legacy.probe_all= [HW,LIBATA] 4345 Format: <int> 4346 Set to non-zero to probe tertiary and further ISA 4347 port ranges on PCI systems. Disabled by default. 4348 4349 pata_legacy.probe_mask= [HW,LIBATA] 4350 Format: <int> 4351 Probe mask for legacy ISA PATA ports. Depending on 4352 platform configuration and the use of other driver 4353 options up to 6 legacy ports are supported: 0x1f0, 4354 0x170, 0x1e8, 0x168, 0x1e0, 0x160, however probing 4355 of individual ports can be disabled by setting the 4356 corresponding bits in the mask to 1. Bit 0 is for 4357 the first port in the list above (0x1f0), and so on. 4358 By default all supported ports are probed. 4359 4360 pata_legacy.qdi= [HW,LIBATA] 4361 Format: <int> 4362 Set to non-zero to probe QDI controllers. By default 4363 set to 1 if CONFIG_PATA_QDI_MODULE, 0 otherwise. 4364 4365 pata_legacy.winbond= [HW,LIBATA] 4366 Format: <int> 4367 Set to non-zero to probe Winbond controllers. Use 4368 the standard I/O port (0x130) if 1, otherwise the 4369 value given is the I/O port to use (typically 0x1b0). 4370 By default set to 1 if CONFIG_PATA_WINBOND_VLB_MODULE, 4371 0 otherwise. 4372 4373 pata_platform.pio_mask= [HW,LIBATA] 4374 Format: <int> 4375 Supported PIO mode mask. Set individual bits to allow 4376 the use of the respective PIO modes. Bit 0 is for 4377 mode 0, bit 1 is for mode 1, and so on. Mode 0 only 4378 allowed by default. 4379 4380 pause_on_oops=<int> 4381 Halt all CPUs after the first oops has been printed for 4382 the specified number of seconds. This is to be used if 4383 your oopses keep scrolling off the screen. 4384 4385 pcbit= [HW,ISDN] 4386 4387 pci=option[,option...] [PCI,EARLY] various PCI subsystem options. 4388 4389 Some options herein operate on a specific device 4390 or a set of devices (<pci_dev>). These are 4391 specified in one of the following formats: 4392 4393 [<domain>:]<bus>:<dev>.<func>[/<dev>.<func>]* 4394 pci:<vendor>:<device>[:<subvendor>:<subdevice>] 4395 4396 Note: the first format specifies a PCI 4397 bus/device/function address which may change 4398 if new hardware is inserted, if motherboard 4399 firmware changes, or due to changes caused 4400 by other kernel parameters. If the 4401 domain is left unspecified, it is 4402 taken to be zero. Optionally, a path 4403 to a device through multiple device/function 4404 addresses can be specified after the base 4405 address (this is more robust against 4406 renumbering issues). The second format 4407 selects devices using IDs from the 4408 configuration space which may match multiple 4409 devices in the system. 4410 4411 earlydump dump PCI config space before the kernel 4412 changes anything 4413 off [X86] don't probe for the PCI bus 4414 bios [X86-32] force use of PCI BIOS, don't access 4415 the hardware directly. Use this if your machine 4416 has a non-standard PCI host bridge. 4417 nobios [X86-32] disallow use of PCI BIOS, only direct 4418 hardware access methods are allowed. Use this 4419 if you experience crashes upon bootup and you 4420 suspect they are caused by the BIOS. 4421 conf1 [X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access 4422 Mechanism 1 (config address in IO port 0xCF8, 4423 data in IO port 0xCFC, both 32-bit). 4424 conf2 [X86] Force use of PCI Configuration Access 4425 Mechanism 2 (IO port 0xCF8 is an 8-bit port for 4426 the function, IO port 0xCFA, also 8-bit, sets 4427 bus number. The config space is then accessed 4428 through ports 0xC000-0xCFFF). 4429 See http://wiki.osdev.org/PCI for more info 4430 on the configuration access mechanisms. 4431 noaer [PCIE] If the PCIEAER kernel config parameter is 4432 enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to 4433 disable the use of PCIE advanced error reporting. 4434 nodomains [PCI] Disable support for multiple PCI 4435 root domains (aka PCI segments, in ACPI-speak). 4436 nommconf [X86] Disable use of MMCONFIG for PCI 4437 Configuration 4438 check_enable_amd_mmconf [X86] check for and enable 4439 properly configured MMIO access to PCI 4440 config space on AMD family 10h CPU 4441 nomsi [MSI] If the PCI_MSI kernel config parameter is 4442 enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to 4443 disable the use of MSI interrupts system-wide. 4444 noioapicquirk [APIC] Disable all boot interrupt quirks. 4445 Safety option to keep boot IRQs enabled. This 4446 should never be necessary. 4447 ioapicreroute [APIC] Enable rerouting of boot IRQs to the 4448 primary IO-APIC for bridges that cannot disable 4449 boot IRQs. This fixes a source of spurious IRQs 4450 when the system masks IRQs. 4451 noioapicreroute [APIC] Disable workaround that uses the 4452 boot IRQ equivalent of an IRQ that connects to 4453 a chipset where boot IRQs cannot be disabled. 4454 The opposite of ioapicreroute. 4455 biosirq [X86-32] Use PCI BIOS calls to get the interrupt 4456 routing table. These calls are known to be buggy 4457 on several machines and they hang the machine 4458 when used, but on other computers it's the only 4459 way to get the interrupt routing table. Try 4460 this option if the kernel is unable to allocate 4461 IRQs or discover secondary PCI buses on your 4462 motherboard. 4463 rom [X86] Assign address space to expansion ROMs. 4464 Use with caution as certain devices share 4465 address decoders between ROMs and other 4466 resources. 4467 norom [X86] Do not assign address space to 4468 expansion ROMs that do not already have 4469 BIOS assigned address ranges. 4470 nobar [X86] Do not assign address space to the 4471 BARs that weren't assigned by the BIOS. 4472 irqmask=0xMMMM [X86] Set a bit mask of IRQs allowed to be 4473 assigned automatically to PCI devices. You can 4474 make the kernel exclude IRQs of your ISA cards 4475 this way. 4476 pirqaddr=0xAAAAA [X86] Specify the physical address 4477 of the PIRQ table (normally generated 4478 by the BIOS) if it is outside the 4479 F0000h-100000h range. 4480 lastbus=N [X86] Scan all buses thru bus #N. Can be 4481 useful if the kernel is unable to find your 4482 secondary buses and you want to tell it 4483 explicitly which ones they are. 4484 assign-busses [X86] Always assign all PCI bus 4485 numbers ourselves, overriding 4486 whatever the firmware may have done. 4487 usepirqmask [X86] Honor the possible IRQ mask stored 4488 in the BIOS $PIR table. This is needed on 4489 some systems with broken BIOSes, notably 4490 some HP Pavilion N5400 and Omnibook XE3 4491 notebooks. This will have no effect if ACPI 4492 IRQ routing is enabled. 4493 noacpi [X86] Do not use ACPI for IRQ routing 4494 or for PCI scanning. 4495 use_crs [X86] Use PCI host bridge window information 4496 from ACPI. On BIOSes from 2008 or later, this 4497 is enabled by default. If you need to use this, 4498 please report a bug. 4499 nocrs [X86] Ignore PCI host bridge windows from ACPI. 4500 If you need to use this, please report a bug. 4501 use_e820 [X86] Use E820 reservations to exclude parts of 4502 PCI host bridge windows. This is a workaround 4503 for BIOS defects in host bridge _CRS methods. 4504 If you need to use this, please report a bug to 4505 <linux-pci@vger.kernel.org>. 4506 no_e820 [X86] Ignore E820 reservations for PCI host 4507 bridge windows. This is the default on modern 4508 hardware. If you need to use this, please report 4509 a bug to <linux-pci@vger.kernel.org>. 4510 routeirq Do IRQ routing for all PCI devices. 4511 This is normally done in pci_enable_device(), 4512 so this option is a temporary workaround 4513 for broken drivers that don't call it. 4514 skip_isa_align [X86] do not align io start addr, so can 4515 handle more pci cards 4516 noearly [X86] Don't do any early type 1 scanning. 4517 This might help on some broken boards which 4518 machine check when some devices' config space 4519 is read. But various workarounds are disabled 4520 and some IOMMU drivers will not work. 4521 bfsort Sort PCI devices into breadth-first order. 4522 This sorting is done to get a device 4523 order compatible with older (<= 2.4) kernels. 4524 nobfsort Don't sort PCI devices into breadth-first order. 4525 pcie_bus_tune_off Disable PCIe MPS (Max Payload Size) 4526 tuning and use the BIOS-configured MPS defaults. 4527 pcie_bus_safe Set every device's MPS to the largest value 4528 supported by all devices below the root complex. 4529 pcie_bus_perf Set device MPS to the largest allowable MPS 4530 based on its parent bus. Also set MRRS (Max 4531 Read Request Size) to the largest supported 4532 value (no larger than the MPS that the device 4533 or bus can support) for best performance. 4534 pcie_bus_peer2peer Set every device's MPS to 128B, which 4535 every device is guaranteed to support. This 4536 configuration allows peer-to-peer DMA between 4537 any pair of devices, possibly at the cost of 4538 reduced performance. This also guarantees 4539 that hot-added devices will work. 4540 cbiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 4541 reserved for the CardBus bridge's IO window. 4542 The default value is 256 bytes. 4543 cbmemsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 4544 reserved for the CardBus bridge's memory 4545 window. The default value is 64 megabytes. 4546 resource_alignment= 4547 Format: 4548 [<order of align>@]<pci_dev>[; ...] 4549 Specifies alignment and device to reassign 4550 aligned memory resources. How to 4551 specify the device is described above. 4552 If <order of align> is not specified, 4553 PAGE_SIZE is used as alignment. 4554 A PCI-PCI bridge can be specified if resource 4555 windows need to be expanded. 4556 To specify the alignment for several 4557 instances of a device, the PCI vendor, 4558 device, subvendor, and subdevice may be 4559 specified, e.g., 12@pci:8086:9c22:103c:198f 4560 for 4096-byte alignment. 4561 ecrc= Enable/disable PCIe ECRC (transaction layer 4562 end-to-end CRC checking). Only effective if 4563 OS has native AER control (either granted by 4564 ACPI _OSC or forced via "pcie_ports=native") 4565 bios: Use BIOS/firmware settings. This is the 4566 the default. 4567 off: Turn ECRC off 4568 on: Turn ECRC on. 4569 hpiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 4570 reserved for hotplug bridge's IO window. 4571 Default size is 256 bytes. 4572 hpmmiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 4573 reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO window. 4574 Default size is 2 megabytes. 4575 hpmmioprefsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 4576 reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO_PREF window. 4577 Default size is 2 megabytes. 4578 hpmemsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is 4579 reserved for hotplug bridge's MMIO and 4580 MMIO_PREF window. 4581 Default size is 2 megabytes. 4582 hpbussize=nn The minimum amount of additional bus numbers 4583 reserved for buses below a hotplug bridge. 4584 Default is 1. 4585 realloc= Enable/disable reallocating PCI bridge resources 4586 if allocations done by BIOS are too small to 4587 accommodate resources required by all child 4588 devices. 4589 off: Turn realloc off 4590 on: Turn realloc on 4591 realloc same as realloc=on 4592 noari do not use PCIe ARI. 4593 noats [PCIE, Intel-IOMMU, AMD-IOMMU] 4594 do not use PCIe ATS (and IOMMU device IOTLB). 4595 pcie_scan_all Scan all possible PCIe devices. Otherwise we 4596 only look for one device below a PCIe downstream 4597 port. 4598 big_root_window Try to add a big 64bit memory window to the PCIe 4599 root complex on AMD CPUs. Some GFX hardware 4600 can resize a BAR to allow access to all VRAM. 4601 Adding the window is slightly risky (it may 4602 conflict with unreported devices), so this 4603 taints the kernel. 4604 disable_acs_redir=<pci_dev>[; ...] 4605 Specify one or more PCI devices (in the format 4606 specified above) separated by semicolons. 4607 Each device specified will have the PCI ACS 4608 redirect capabilities forced off which will 4609 allow P2P traffic between devices through 4610 bridges without forcing it upstream. Note: 4611 this removes isolation between devices and 4612 may put more devices in an IOMMU group. 4613 config_acs= 4614 Format: 4615 <ACS flags>@<pci_dev>[; ...] 4616 Specify one or more PCI devices (in the format 4617 specified above) optionally prepended with flags 4618 and separated by semicolons. The respective 4619 capabilities will be enabled, disabled or 4620 unchanged based on what is specified in 4621 flags. 4622 4623 ACS Flags is defined as follows: 4624 bit-0 : ACS Source Validation 4625 bit-1 : ACS Translation Blocking 4626 bit-2 : ACS P2P Request Redirect 4627 bit-3 : ACS P2P Completion Redirect 4628 bit-4 : ACS Upstream Forwarding 4629 bit-5 : ACS P2P Egress Control 4630 bit-6 : ACS Direct Translated P2P 4631 Each bit can be marked as: 4632 '0' – force disabled 4633 '1' – force enabled 4634 'x' – unchanged 4635 For example, 4636 pci=config_acs=10x 4637 would configure all devices that support 4638 ACS to enable P2P Request Redirect, disable 4639 Translation Blocking, and leave Source 4640 Validation unchanged from whatever power-up 4641 or firmware set it to. 4642 4643 Note: this may remove isolation between devices 4644 and may put more devices in an IOMMU group. 4645 force_floating [S390] Force usage of floating interrupts. 4646 nomio [S390] Do not use MIO instructions. 4647 norid [S390] ignore the RID field and force use of 4648 one PCI domain per PCI function 4649 4650 pcie_aspm= [PCIE] Forcibly enable or ignore PCIe Active State Power 4651 Management. 4652 off Don't touch ASPM configuration at all. Leave any 4653 configuration done by firmware unchanged. 4654 force Enable ASPM even on devices that claim not to support it. 4655 WARNING: Forcing ASPM on may cause system lockups. 4656 4657 pcie_ports= [PCIE] PCIe port services handling: 4658 native Use native PCIe services (PME, AER, DPC, PCIe hotplug) 4659 even if the platform doesn't give the OS permission to 4660 use them. This may cause conflicts if the platform 4661 also tries to use these services. 4662 dpc-native Use native PCIe service for DPC only. May 4663 cause conflicts if firmware uses AER or DPC. 4664 compat Disable native PCIe services (PME, AER, DPC, PCIe 4665 hotplug). 4666 4667 pcie_port_pm= [PCIE] PCIe port power management handling: 4668 off Disable power management of all PCIe ports 4669 force Forcibly enable power management of all PCIe ports 4670 4671 pcie_pme= [PCIE,PM] Native PCIe PME signaling options: 4672 nomsi Do not use MSI for native PCIe PME signaling (this makes 4673 all PCIe root ports use INTx for all services). 4674 4675 pcmv= [HW,PCMCIA] BadgePAD 4 4676 4677 pd_ignore_unused 4678 [PM] 4679 Keep all power-domains already enabled by bootloader on, 4680 even if no driver has claimed them. This is useful 4681 for debug and development, but should not be 4682 needed on a platform with proper driver support. 4683 4684 pdcchassis= [PARISC,HW] Disable/Enable PDC Chassis Status codes at 4685 boot time. 4686 Format: { 0 | 1 } 4687 See arch/parisc/kernel/pdc_chassis.c 4688 4689 percpu_alloc= [MM,EARLY] 4690 Select which percpu first chunk allocator to use. 4691 Currently supported values are "embed" and "page". 4692 Archs may support subset or none of the selections. 4693 See comments in mm/percpu.c for details on each 4694 allocator. This parameter is primarily for debugging 4695 and performance comparison. 4696 4697 pirq= [SMP,APIC] Manual mp-table setup 4698 See Documentation/arch/x86/i386/IO-APIC.rst. 4699 4700 plip= [PPT,NET] Parallel port network link 4701 Format: { parport<nr> | timid | 0 } 4702 See also Documentation/admin-guide/parport.rst. 4703 4704 pmtmr= [X86] Manual setup of pmtmr I/O Port. 4705 Override pmtimer IOPort with a hex value. 4706 e.g. pmtmr=0x508 4707 4708 pmu_override= [PPC] Override the PMU. 4709 This option takes over the PMU facility, so it is no 4710 longer usable by perf. Setting this option starts the 4711 PMU counters by setting MMCR0 to 0 (the FC bit is 4712 cleared). If a number is given, then MMCR1 is set to 4713 that number, otherwise (e.g., 'pmu_override=on'), MMCR1 4714 remains 0. 4715 4716 pm_debug_messages [SUSPEND,KNL] 4717 Enable suspend/resume debug messages during boot up. 4718 4719 pnp.debug=1 [PNP] 4720 Enable PNP debug messages (depends on the 4721 CONFIG_PNP_DEBUG_MESSAGES option). Change at run-time 4722 via /sys/module/pnp/parameters/debug. We always show 4723 current resource usage; turning this on also shows 4724 possible settings and some assignment information. 4725 4726 pnpacpi= [ACPI] 4727 { off } 4728 4729 pnpbios= [ISAPNP] 4730 { on | off | curr | res | no-curr | no-res } 4731 4732 pnp_reserve_irq= 4733 [ISAPNP] Exclude IRQs for the autoconfiguration 4734 4735 pnp_reserve_dma= 4736 [ISAPNP] Exclude DMAs for the autoconfiguration 4737 4738 pnp_reserve_io= [ISAPNP] Exclude I/O ports for the autoconfiguration 4739 Ranges are in pairs (I/O port base and size). 4740 4741 pnp_reserve_mem= 4742 [ISAPNP] Exclude memory regions for the 4743 autoconfiguration. 4744 Ranges are in pairs (memory base and size). 4745 4746 ports= [IP_VS_FTP] IPVS ftp helper module 4747 Default is 21. 4748 Up to 8 (IP_VS_APP_MAX_PORTS) ports 4749 may be specified. 4750 Format: <port>,<port>.... 4751 4752 possible_cpus= [SMP,S390,X86] 4753 Format: <unsigned int> 4754 Set the number of possible CPUs, overriding the 4755 regular discovery mechanisms (such as ACPI/FW, etc). 4756 4757 powersave=off [PPC] This option disables power saving features. 4758 It specifically disables cpuidle and sets the 4759 platform machine description specific power_save 4760 function to NULL. On Idle the CPU just reduces 4761 execution priority. 4762 4763 ppc_strict_facility_enable 4764 [PPC,ENABLE] This option catches any kernel floating point, 4765 Altivec, VSX and SPE outside of regions specifically 4766 allowed (eg kernel_enable_fpu()/kernel_disable_fpu()). 4767 There is some performance impact when enabling this. 4768 4769 ppc_tm= [PPC,EARLY] 4770 Format: {"off"} 4771 Disable Hardware Transactional Memory 4772 4773 preempt= [KNL] 4774 Select preemption mode if you have CONFIG_PREEMPT_DYNAMIC 4775 none - Limited to cond_resched() calls 4776 voluntary - Limited to cond_resched() and might_sleep() calls 4777 full - Any section that isn't explicitly preempt disabled 4778 can be preempted anytime. Tasks will also yield 4779 contended spinlocks (if the critical section isn't 4780 explicitly preempt disabled beyond the lock itself). 4781 4782 print-fatal-signals= 4783 [KNL] debug: print fatal signals 4784 4785 If enabled, warn about various signal handling 4786 related application anomalies: too many signals, 4787 too many POSIX.1 timers, fatal signals causing a 4788 coredump - etc. 4789 4790 If you hit the warning due to signal overflow, 4791 you might want to try "ulimit -i unlimited". 4792 4793 default: off. 4794 4795 printk.always_kmsg_dump= 4796 Trigger kmsg_dump for cases other than kernel oops or 4797 panics 4798 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable) 4799 default: disabled 4800 4801 printk.console_no_auto_verbose= 4802 Disable console loglevel raise on oops, panic 4803 or lockdep-detected issues (only if lock debug is on). 4804 With an exception to setups with low baudrate on 4805 serial console, keeping this 0 is a good choice 4806 in order to provide more debug information. 4807 Format: <bool> 4808 default: 0 (auto_verbose is enabled) 4809 4810 printk.devkmsg={on,off,ratelimit} 4811 Control writing to /dev/kmsg. 4812 on - unlimited logging to /dev/kmsg from userspace 4813 off - logging to /dev/kmsg disabled 4814 ratelimit - ratelimit the logging 4815 Default: ratelimit 4816 4817 printk.time= Show timing data prefixed to each printk message line 4818 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable) 4819 4820 proc_mem.force_override= [KNL] 4821 Format: {always | ptrace | never} 4822 Traditionally /proc/pid/mem allows memory permissions to be 4823 overridden without restrictions. This option may be set to 4824 restrict that. Can be one of: 4825 - 'always': traditional behavior always allows mem overrides. 4826 - 'ptrace': only allow mem overrides for active ptracers. 4827 - 'never': never allow mem overrides. 4828 If not specified, default is the CONFIG_PROC_MEM_* choice. 4829 4830 processor.max_cstate= [HW,ACPI] 4831 Limit processor to maximum C-state 4832 max_cstate=9 overrides any DMI blacklist limit. 4833 4834 processor.nocst [HW,ACPI] 4835 Ignore the _CST method to determine C-states, 4836 instead using the legacy FADT method 4837 4838 profile= [KNL] Enable kernel profiling via /proc/profile 4839 Format: [<profiletype>,]<number> 4840 Param: <profiletype>: "schedule" or "kvm" 4841 [defaults to kernel profiling] 4842 Param: "schedule" - profile schedule points. 4843 Param: "kvm" - profile VM exits. 4844 Param: <number> - step/bucket size as a power of 2 for 4845 statistical time based profiling. 4846 4847 prompt_ramdisk= [RAM] [Deprecated] 4848 4849 prot_virt= [S390] enable hosting protected virtual machines 4850 isolated from the hypervisor (if hardware supports 4851 that). If enabled, the default kernel base address 4852 might be overridden even when Kernel Address Space 4853 Layout Randomization is disabled. 4854 Format: <bool> 4855 4856 psi= [KNL] Enable or disable pressure stall information 4857 tracking. 4858 Format: <bool> 4859 4860 psmouse.proto= [HW,MOUSE] Highest PS2 mouse protocol extension to 4861 probe for; one of (bare|imps|exps|lifebook|any). 4862 psmouse.rate= [HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse report rate, in reports 4863 per second. 4864 psmouse.resetafter= [HW,MOUSE] 4865 Try to reset the device after so many bad packets 4866 (0 = never). 4867 psmouse.resolution= 4868 [HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse resolution, in dpi. 4869 psmouse.smartscroll= 4870 [HW,MOUSE] Controls Logitech smartscroll autorepeat. 4871 0 = disabled, 1 = enabled (default). 4872 4873 pstore.backend= Specify the name of the pstore backend to use 4874 4875 pti= [X86-64] Control Page Table Isolation of user and 4876 kernel address spaces. Disabling this feature 4877 removes hardening, but improves performance of 4878 system calls and interrupts. 4879 4880 on - unconditionally enable 4881 off - unconditionally disable 4882 auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is 4883 vulnerable to issues that PTI mitigates 4884 4885 Not specifying this option is equivalent to pti=auto. 4886 4887 pty.legacy_count= 4888 [KNL] Number of legacy pty's. Overwrites compiled-in 4889 default number. 4890 4891 quiet [KNL,EARLY] Disable most log messages 4892 4893 r128= [HW,DRM] 4894 4895 radix_hcall_invalidate=on [PPC/PSERIES] 4896 Disable RADIX GTSE feature and use hcall for TLB 4897 invalidate. 4898 4899 raid= [HW,RAID] 4900 See Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst. 4901 4902 ramdisk_size= [RAM] Sizes of RAM disks in kilobytes 4903 See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/ramdisk.rst. 4904 4905 ramdisk_start= [RAM] RAM disk image start address 4906 4907 random.trust_cpu=off 4908 [KNL,EARLY] Disable trusting the use of the CPU's 4909 random number generator (if available) to 4910 initialize the kernel's RNG. 4911 4912 random.trust_bootloader=off 4913 [KNL,EARLY] Disable trusting the use of the a seed 4914 passed by the bootloader (if available) to 4915 initialize the kernel's RNG. 4916 4917 randomize_kstack_offset= 4918 [KNL,EARLY] Enable or disable kernel stack offset 4919 randomization, which provides roughly 5 bits of 4920 entropy, frustrating memory corruption attacks 4921 that depend on stack address determinism or 4922 cross-syscall address exposures. This is only 4923 available on architectures that have defined 4924 CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_RANDOMIZE_KSTACK_OFFSET. 4925 Format: <bool> (1/Y/y=enable, 0/N/n=disable) 4926 Default is CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_KSTACK_OFFSET_DEFAULT. 4927 4928 ras=option[,option,...] [KNL] RAS-specific options 4929 4930 cec_disable [X86] 4931 Disable the Correctable Errors Collector, 4932 see CONFIG_RAS_CEC help text. 4933 4934 rcu_nocbs[=cpu-list] 4935 [KNL] The optional argument is a cpu list, 4936 as described above. 4937 4938 In kernels built with CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU=y, 4939 enable the no-callback CPU mode, which prevents 4940 such CPUs' callbacks from being invoked in 4941 softirq context. Invocation of such CPUs' RCU 4942 callbacks will instead be offloaded to "rcuox/N" 4943 kthreads created for that purpose, where "x" is 4944 "p" for RCU-preempt, "s" for RCU-sched, and "g" 4945 for the kthreads that mediate grace periods; and 4946 "N" is the CPU number. This reduces OS jitter on 4947 the offloaded CPUs, which can be useful for HPC 4948 and real-time workloads. It can also improve 4949 energy efficiency for asymmetric multiprocessors. 4950 4951 If a cpulist is passed as an argument, the specified 4952 list of CPUs is set to no-callback mode from boot. 4953 4954 Otherwise, if the '=' sign and the cpulist 4955 arguments are omitted, no CPU will be set to 4956 no-callback mode from boot but the mode may be 4957 toggled at runtime via cpusets. 4958 4959 Note that this argument takes precedence over 4960 the CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU_DEFAULT_ALL option. 4961 4962 rcu_nocb_poll [KNL] 4963 Rather than requiring that offloaded CPUs 4964 (specified by rcu_nocbs= above) explicitly 4965 awaken the corresponding "rcuoN" kthreads, 4966 make these kthreads poll for callbacks. 4967 This improves the real-time response for the 4968 offloaded CPUs by relieving them of the need to 4969 wake up the corresponding kthread, but degrades 4970 energy efficiency by requiring that the kthreads 4971 periodically wake up to do the polling. 4972 4973 rcutree.blimit= [KNL] 4974 Set maximum number of finished RCU callbacks to 4975 process in one batch. 4976 4977 rcutree.csd_lock_suppress_rcu_stall= [KNL] 4978 Do only a one-line RCU CPU stall warning when 4979 there is an ongoing too-long CSD-lock wait. 4980 4981 rcutree.do_rcu_barrier= [KNL] 4982 Request a call to rcu_barrier(). This is 4983 throttled so that userspace tests can safely 4984 hammer on the sysfs variable if they so choose. 4985 If triggered before the RCU grace-period machinery 4986 is fully active, this will error out with EAGAIN. 4987 4988 rcutree.dump_tree= [KNL] 4989 Dump the structure of the rcu_node combining tree 4990 out at early boot. This is used for diagnostic 4991 purposes, to verify correct tree setup. 4992 4993 rcutree.gp_cleanup_delay= [KNL] 4994 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of 4995 RCU grace-period cleanup. 4996 4997 rcutree.gp_init_delay= [KNL] 4998 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of 4999 RCU grace-period initialization. 5000 5001 rcutree.gp_preinit_delay= [KNL] 5002 Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of 5003 RCU grace-period pre-initialization, that is, 5004 the propagation of recent CPU-hotplug changes up 5005 the rcu_node combining tree. 5006 5007 rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs= [KNL] 5008 Set delay from grace-period initialization to 5009 first attempt to force quiescent states. 5010 Units are jiffies, minimum value is zero, 5011 and maximum value is HZ. 5012 5013 rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs= [KNL] 5014 Set delay between subsequent attempts to force 5015 quiescent states. Units are jiffies, minimum 5016 value is one, and maximum value is HZ. 5017 5018 rcutree.jiffies_till_sched_qs= [KNL] 5019 Set required age in jiffies for a 5020 given grace period before RCU starts 5021 soliciting quiescent-state help from 5022 rcu_note_context_switch() and cond_resched(). 5023 If not specified, the kernel will calculate 5024 a value based on the most recent settings 5025 of rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs 5026 and rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs. 5027 This calculated value may be viewed in 5028 rcutree.jiffies_to_sched_qs. Any attempt to set 5029 rcutree.jiffies_to_sched_qs will be cheerfully 5030 overwritten. 5031 5032 rcutree.kthread_prio= [KNL,BOOT] 5033 Set the SCHED_FIFO priority of the RCU per-CPU 5034 kthreads (rcuc/N). This value is also used for 5035 the priority of the RCU boost threads (rcub/N) 5036 and for the RCU grace-period kthreads (rcu_bh, 5037 rcu_preempt, and rcu_sched). If RCU_BOOST is 5038 set, valid values are 1-99 and the default is 1 5039 (the least-favored priority). Otherwise, when 5040 RCU_BOOST is not set, valid values are 0-99 and 5041 the default is zero (non-realtime operation). 5042 When RCU_NOCB_CPU is set, also adjust the 5043 priority of NOCB callback kthreads. 5044 5045 rcutree.nocb_nobypass_lim_per_jiffy= [KNL] 5046 On callback-offloaded (rcu_nocbs) CPUs, 5047 RCU reduces the lock contention that would 5048 otherwise be caused by callback floods through 5049 use of the ->nocb_bypass list. However, in the 5050 common non-flooded case, RCU queues directly to 5051 the main ->cblist in order to avoid the extra 5052 overhead of the ->nocb_bypass list and its lock. 5053 But if there are too many callbacks queued during 5054 a single jiffy, RCU pre-queues the callbacks into 5055 the ->nocb_bypass queue. The definition of "too 5056 many" is supplied by this kernel boot parameter. 5057 5058 rcutree.nohz_full_patience_delay= [KNL] 5059 On callback-offloaded (rcu_nocbs) CPUs, avoid 5060 disturbing RCU unless the grace period has 5061 reached the specified age in milliseconds. 5062 Defaults to zero. Large values will be capped 5063 at five seconds. All values will be rounded down 5064 to the nearest value representable by jiffies. 5065 5066 rcutree.qhimark= [KNL] 5067 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks beyond which 5068 batch limiting is disabled. 5069 5070 rcutree.qlowmark= [KNL] 5071 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks below which 5072 batch limiting is re-enabled. 5073 5074 rcutree.qovld= [KNL] 5075 Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks beyond which 5076 RCU's force-quiescent-state scan will aggressively 5077 enlist help from cond_resched() and sched IPIs to 5078 help CPUs more quickly reach quiescent states. 5079 Set to less than zero to make this be set based 5080 on rcutree.qhimark at boot time and to zero to 5081 disable more aggressive help enlistment. 5082 5083 rcutree.rcu_delay_page_cache_fill_msec= [KNL] 5084 Set the page-cache refill delay (in milliseconds) 5085 in response to low-memory conditions. The range 5086 of permitted values is in the range 0:100000. 5087 5088 rcutree.rcu_divisor= [KNL] 5089 Set the shift-right count to use to compute 5090 the callback-invocation batch limit bl from 5091 the number of callbacks queued on this CPU. 5092 The result will be bounded below by the value of 5093 the rcutree.blimit kernel parameter. Every bl 5094 callbacks, the softirq handler will exit in 5095 order to allow the CPU to do other work. 5096 5097 Please note that this callback-invocation batch 5098 limit applies only to non-offloaded callback 5099 invocation. Offloaded callbacks are instead 5100 invoked in the context of an rcuoc kthread, which 5101 scheduler will preempt as it does any other task. 5102 5103 rcutree.rcu_fanout_exact= [KNL] 5104 Disable autobalancing of the rcu_node combining 5105 tree. This is used by rcutorture, and might 5106 possibly be useful for architectures having high 5107 cache-to-cache transfer latencies. 5108 5109 rcutree.rcu_fanout_leaf= [KNL] 5110 Change the number of CPUs assigned to each 5111 leaf rcu_node structure. Useful for very 5112 large systems, which will choose the value 64, 5113 and for NUMA systems with large remote-access 5114 latencies, which will choose a value aligned 5115 with the appropriate hardware boundaries. 5116 5117 rcutree.rcu_min_cached_objs= [KNL] 5118 Minimum number of objects which are cached and 5119 maintained per one CPU. Object size is equal 5120 to PAGE_SIZE. The cache allows to reduce the 5121 pressure to page allocator, also it makes the 5122 whole algorithm to behave better in low memory 5123 condition. 5124 5125 rcutree.rcu_nocb_gp_stride= [KNL] 5126 Set the number of NOCB callback kthreads in 5127 each group, which defaults to the square root 5128 of the number of CPUs. Larger numbers reduce 5129 the wakeup overhead on the global grace-period 5130 kthread, but increases that same overhead on 5131 each group's NOCB grace-period kthread. 5132 5133 rcutree.rcu_kick_kthreads= [KNL] 5134 Cause the grace-period kthread to get an extra 5135 wake_up() if it sleeps three times longer than 5136 it should at force-quiescent-state time. 5137 This wake_up() will be accompanied by a 5138 WARN_ONCE() splat and an ftrace_dump(). 5139 5140 rcutree.rcu_resched_ns= [KNL] 5141 Limit the time spend invoking a batch of RCU 5142 callbacks to the specified number of nanoseconds. 5143 By default, this limit is checked only once 5144 every 32 callbacks in order to limit the pain 5145 inflicted by local_clock() overhead. 5146 5147 rcutree.rcu_unlock_delay= [KNL] 5148 In CONFIG_RCU_STRICT_GRACE_PERIOD=y kernels, 5149 this specifies an rcu_read_unlock()-time delay 5150 in microseconds. This defaults to zero. 5151 Larger delays increase the probability of 5152 catching RCU pointer leaks, that is, buggy use 5153 of RCU-protected pointers after the relevant 5154 rcu_read_unlock() has completed. 5155 5156 rcutree.sysrq_rcu= [KNL] 5157 Commandeer a sysrq key to dump out Tree RCU's 5158 rcu_node tree with an eye towards determining 5159 why a new grace period has not yet started. 5160 5161 rcutree.use_softirq= [KNL] 5162 If set to zero, move all RCU_SOFTIRQ processing to 5163 per-CPU rcuc kthreads. Defaults to a non-zero 5164 value, meaning that RCU_SOFTIRQ is used by default. 5165 Specify rcutree.use_softirq=0 to use rcuc kthreads. 5166 5167 But note that CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT=y kernels disable 5168 this kernel boot parameter, forcibly setting it 5169 to zero. 5170 5171 rcutree.enable_rcu_lazy= [KNL] 5172 To save power, batch RCU callbacks and flush after 5173 delay, memory pressure or callback list growing too 5174 big. 5175 5176 rcutree.rcu_normal_wake_from_gp= [KNL] 5177 Reduces a latency of synchronize_rcu() call. This approach 5178 maintains its own track of synchronize_rcu() callers, so it 5179 does not interact with regular callbacks because it does not 5180 use a call_rcu[_hurry]() path. Please note, this is for a 5181 normal grace period. 5182 5183 How to enable it: 5184 5185 echo 1 > /sys/module/rcutree/parameters/rcu_normal_wake_from_gp 5186 or pass a boot parameter "rcutree.rcu_normal_wake_from_gp=1" 5187 5188 Default is 0. 5189 5190 rcuscale.gp_async= [KNL] 5191 Measure performance of asynchronous 5192 grace-period primitives such as call_rcu(). 5193 5194 rcuscale.gp_async_max= [KNL] 5195 Specify the maximum number of outstanding 5196 callbacks per writer thread. When a writer 5197 thread exceeds this limit, it invokes the 5198 corresponding flavor of rcu_barrier() to allow 5199 previously posted callbacks to drain. 5200 5201 rcuscale.gp_exp= [KNL] 5202 Measure performance of expedited synchronous 5203 grace-period primitives. 5204 5205 rcuscale.holdoff= [KNL] 5206 Set test-start holdoff period. The purpose of 5207 this parameter is to delay the start of the 5208 test until boot completes in order to avoid 5209 interference. 5210 5211 rcuscale.kfree_by_call_rcu= [KNL] 5212 In kernels built with CONFIG_RCU_LAZY=y, test 5213 call_rcu() instead of kfree_rcu(). 5214 5215 rcuscale.kfree_mult= [KNL] 5216 Instead of allocating an object of size kfree_obj, 5217 allocate one of kfree_mult * sizeof(kfree_obj). 5218 Defaults to 1. 5219 5220 rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test= [KNL] 5221 Set to measure performance of kfree_rcu() flooding. 5222 5223 rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_double= [KNL] 5224 Test the double-argument variant of kfree_rcu(). 5225 If this parameter has the same value as 5226 rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_single, both the single- 5227 and double-argument variants are tested. 5228 5229 rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_single= [KNL] 5230 Test the single-argument variant of kfree_rcu(). 5231 If this parameter has the same value as 5232 rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_double, both the single- 5233 and double-argument variants are tested. 5234 5235 rcuscale.kfree_nthreads= [KNL] 5236 The number of threads running loops of kfree_rcu(). 5237 5238 rcuscale.kfree_alloc_num= [KNL] 5239 Number of allocations and frees done in an iteration. 5240 5241 rcuscale.kfree_loops= [KNL] 5242 Number of loops doing rcuscale.kfree_alloc_num number 5243 of allocations and frees. 5244 5245 rcuscale.minruntime= [KNL] 5246 Set the minimum test run time in seconds. This 5247 does not affect the data-collection interval, 5248 but instead allows better measurement of things 5249 like CPU consumption. 5250 5251 rcuscale.nreaders= [KNL] 5252 Set number of RCU readers. The value -1 selects 5253 N, where N is the number of CPUs. A value 5254 "n" less than -1 selects N-n+1, where N is again 5255 the number of CPUs. For example, -2 selects N 5256 (the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on. 5257 A value of "n" less than or equal to -N selects 5258 a single reader. 5259 5260 rcuscale.nwriters= [KNL] 5261 Set number of RCU writers. The values operate 5262 the same as for rcuscale.nreaders. 5263 N, where N is the number of CPUs 5264 5265 rcuscale.scale_type= [KNL] 5266 Specify the RCU implementation to test. 5267 5268 rcuscale.shutdown= [KNL] 5269 Shut the system down after performance tests 5270 complete. This is useful for hands-off automated 5271 testing. 5272 5273 rcuscale.verbose= [KNL] 5274 Enable additional printk() statements. 5275 5276 rcuscale.writer_holdoff= [KNL] 5277 Write-side holdoff between grace periods, 5278 in microseconds. The default of zero says 5279 no holdoff. 5280 5281 rcuscale.writer_holdoff_jiffies= [KNL] 5282 Additional write-side holdoff between grace 5283 periods, but in jiffies. The default of zero 5284 says no holdoff. 5285 5286 rcutorture.fqs_duration= [KNL] 5287 Set duration of force_quiescent_state bursts 5288 in microseconds. 5289 5290 rcutorture.fqs_holdoff= [KNL] 5291 Set holdoff time within force_quiescent_state bursts 5292 in microseconds. 5293 5294 rcutorture.fqs_stutter= [KNL] 5295 Set wait time between force_quiescent_state bursts 5296 in seconds. 5297 5298 rcutorture.fwd_progress= [KNL] 5299 Specifies the number of kthreads to be used 5300 for RCU grace-period forward-progress testing 5301 for the types of RCU supporting this notion. 5302 Defaults to 1 kthread, values less than zero or 5303 greater than the number of CPUs cause the number 5304 of CPUs to be used. 5305 5306 rcutorture.fwd_progress_div= [KNL] 5307 Specify the fraction of a CPU-stall-warning 5308 period to do tight-loop forward-progress testing. 5309 5310 rcutorture.fwd_progress_holdoff= [KNL] 5311 Number of seconds to wait between successive 5312 forward-progress tests. 5313 5314 rcutorture.fwd_progress_need_resched= [KNL] 5315 Enclose cond_resched() calls within checks for 5316 need_resched() during tight-loop forward-progress 5317 testing. 5318 5319 rcutorture.gp_cond= [KNL] 5320 Use conditional/asynchronous update-side 5321 primitives, if available. 5322 5323 rcutorture.gp_exp= [KNL] 5324 Use expedited update-side primitives, if available. 5325 5326 rcutorture.gp_normal= [KNL] 5327 Use normal (non-expedited) asynchronous 5328 update-side primitives, if available. 5329 5330 rcutorture.gp_sync= [KNL] 5331 Use normal (non-expedited) synchronous 5332 update-side primitives, if available. If all 5333 of rcutorture.gp_cond=, rcutorture.gp_exp=, 5334 rcutorture.gp_normal=, and rcutorture.gp_sync= 5335 are zero, rcutorture acts as if is interpreted 5336 they are all non-zero. 5337 5338 rcutorture.irqreader= [KNL] 5339 Run RCU readers from irq handlers, or, more 5340 accurately, from a timer handler. Not all RCU 5341 flavors take kindly to this sort of thing. 5342 5343 rcutorture.leakpointer= [KNL] 5344 Leak an RCU-protected pointer out of the reader. 5345 This can of course result in splats, and is 5346 intended to test the ability of things like 5347 CONFIG_RCU_STRICT_GRACE_PERIOD=y to detect 5348 such leaks. 5349 5350 rcutorture.n_barrier_cbs= [KNL] 5351 Set callbacks/threads for rcu_barrier() testing. 5352 5353 rcutorture.nfakewriters= [KNL] 5354 Set number of concurrent RCU writers. These just 5355 stress RCU, they don't participate in the actual 5356 test, hence the "fake". 5357 5358 rcutorture.nocbs_nthreads= [KNL] 5359 Set number of RCU callback-offload togglers. 5360 Zero (the default) disables toggling. 5361 5362 rcutorture.nocbs_toggle= [KNL] 5363 Set the delay in milliseconds between successive 5364 callback-offload toggling attempts. 5365 5366 rcutorture.nreaders= [KNL] 5367 Set number of RCU readers. The value -1 selects 5368 N-1, where N is the number of CPUs. A value 5369 "n" less than -1 selects N-n-2, where N is again 5370 the number of CPUs. For example, -2 selects N 5371 (the number of CPUs), -3 selects N+1, and so on. 5372 5373 rcutorture.object_debug= [KNL] 5374 Enable debug-object double-call_rcu() testing. 5375 5376 rcutorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL] 5377 Set time (s) after boot for CPU-hotplug testing. 5378 5379 rcutorture.onoff_interval= [KNL] 5380 Set time (jiffies) between CPU-hotplug operations, 5381 or zero to disable CPU-hotplug testing. 5382 5383 rcutorture.read_exit= [KNL] 5384 Set the number of read-then-exit kthreads used 5385 to test the interaction of RCU updaters and 5386 task-exit processing. 5387 5388 rcutorture.read_exit_burst= [KNL] 5389 The number of times in a given read-then-exit 5390 episode that a set of read-then-exit kthreads 5391 is spawned. 5392 5393 rcutorture.read_exit_delay= [KNL] 5394 The delay, in seconds, between successive 5395 read-then-exit testing episodes. 5396 5397 rcutorture.shuffle_interval= [KNL] 5398 Set task-shuffle interval (s). Shuffling tasks 5399 allows some CPUs to go into dyntick-idle mode 5400 during the rcutorture test. 5401 5402 rcutorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL] 5403 Set time (s) after boot system shutdown. This 5404 is useful for hands-off automated testing. 5405 5406 rcutorture.stall_cpu= [KNL] 5407 Duration of CPU stall (s) to test RCU CPU stall 5408 warnings, zero to disable. 5409 5410 rcutorture.stall_cpu_block= [KNL] 5411 Sleep while stalling if set. This will result 5412 in warnings from preemptible RCU in addition to 5413 any other stall-related activity. Note that 5414 in kernels built with CONFIG_PREEMPTION=n and 5415 CONFIG_PREEMPT_COUNT=y, this parameter will 5416 cause the CPU to pass through a quiescent state. 5417 Given CONFIG_PREEMPTION=n, this will suppress 5418 RCU CPU stall warnings, but will instead result 5419 in scheduling-while-atomic splats. 5420 5421 Use of this module parameter results in splats. 5422 5423 5424 rcutorture.stall_cpu_holdoff= [KNL] 5425 Time to wait (s) after boot before inducing stall. 5426 5427 rcutorture.stall_cpu_irqsoff= [KNL] 5428 Disable interrupts while stalling if set, but only 5429 on the first stall in the set. 5430 5431 rcutorture.stall_cpu_repeat= [KNL] 5432 Number of times to repeat the stall sequence, 5433 so that rcutorture.stall_cpu_repeat=3 will result 5434 in four stall sequences. 5435 5436 rcutorture.stall_gp_kthread= [KNL] 5437 Duration (s) of forced sleep within RCU 5438 grace-period kthread to test RCU CPU stall 5439 warnings, zero to disable. If both stall_cpu 5440 and stall_gp_kthread are specified, the 5441 kthread is starved first, then the CPU. 5442 5443 rcutorture.stat_interval= [KNL] 5444 Time (s) between statistics printk()s. 5445 5446 rcutorture.stutter= [KNL] 5447 Time (s) to stutter testing, for example, specifying 5448 five seconds causes the test to run for five seconds, 5449 wait for five seconds, and so on. This tests RCU's 5450 ability to transition abruptly to and from idle. 5451 5452 rcutorture.test_boost= [KNL] 5453 Test RCU priority boosting? 0=no, 1=maybe, 2=yes. 5454 "Maybe" means test if the RCU implementation 5455 under test support RCU priority boosting. 5456 5457 rcutorture.test_boost_duration= [KNL] 5458 Duration (s) of each individual boost test. 5459 5460 rcutorture.test_boost_interval= [KNL] 5461 Interval (s) between each boost test. 5462 5463 rcutorture.test_no_idle_hz= [KNL] 5464 Test RCU's dyntick-idle handling. See also the 5465 rcutorture.shuffle_interval parameter. 5466 5467 rcutorture.torture_type= [KNL] 5468 Specify the RCU implementation to test. 5469 5470 rcutorture.verbose= [KNL] 5471 Enable additional printk() statements. 5472 5473 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_ftrace_dump= [KNL] 5474 Dump ftrace buffer after reporting RCU CPU 5475 stall warning. 5476 5477 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_notifiers= [KNL] 5478 Provide RCU CPU stall notifiers, but see the 5479 warnings in the RCU_CPU_STALL_NOTIFIER Kconfig 5480 option's help text. TL;DR: You almost certainly 5481 do not want rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_notifiers. 5482 5483 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress= [KNL] 5484 Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages. 5485 5486 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress_at_boot= [KNL] 5487 Suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages and 5488 rcutorture writer stall warnings that occur 5489 during early boot, that is, during the time 5490 before the init task is spawned. 5491 5492 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_timeout= [KNL] 5493 Set timeout for RCU CPU stall warning messages. 5494 The value is in seconds and the maximum allowed 5495 value is 300 seconds. 5496 5497 rcupdate.rcu_exp_cpu_stall_timeout= [KNL] 5498 Set timeout for expedited RCU CPU stall warning 5499 messages. The value is in milliseconds 5500 and the maximum allowed value is 21000 5501 milliseconds. Please note that this value is 5502 adjusted to an arch timer tick resolution. 5503 Setting this to zero causes the value from 5504 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_timeout to be used (after 5505 conversion from seconds to milliseconds). 5506 5507 rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_cputime= [KNL] 5508 Provide statistics on the cputime and count of 5509 interrupts and tasks during the sampling period. For 5510 multiple continuous RCU stalls, all sampling periods 5511 begin at half of the first RCU stall timeout. 5512 5513 rcupdate.rcu_exp_stall_task_details= [KNL] 5514 Print stack dumps of any tasks blocking the 5515 current expedited RCU grace period during an 5516 expedited RCU CPU stall warning. 5517 5518 rcupdate.rcu_expedited= [KNL] 5519 Use expedited grace-period primitives, for 5520 example, synchronize_rcu_expedited() instead 5521 of synchronize_rcu(). This reduces latency, 5522 but can increase CPU utilization, degrade 5523 real-time latency, and degrade energy efficiency. 5524 No effect on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels. 5525 5526 rcupdate.rcu_normal= [KNL] 5527 Use only normal grace-period primitives, 5528 for example, synchronize_rcu() instead of 5529 synchronize_rcu_expedited(). This improves 5530 real-time latency, CPU utilization, and 5531 energy efficiency, but can expose users to 5532 increased grace-period latency. This parameter 5533 overrides rcupdate.rcu_expedited. No effect on 5534 CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels. 5535 5536 rcupdate.rcu_normal_after_boot= [KNL] 5537 Once boot has completed (that is, after 5538 rcu_end_inkernel_boot() has been invoked), use 5539 only normal grace-period primitives. No effect 5540 on CONFIG_TINY_RCU kernels. 5541 5542 But note that CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT=y kernels enables 5543 this kernel boot parameter, forcibly setting 5544 it to the value one, that is, converting any 5545 post-boot attempt at an expedited RCU grace 5546 period to instead use normal non-expedited 5547 grace-period processing. 5548 5549 rcupdate.rcu_task_collapse_lim= [KNL] 5550 Set the maximum number of callbacks present 5551 at the beginning of a grace period that allows 5552 the RCU Tasks flavors to collapse back to using 5553 a single callback queue. This switching only 5554 occurs when rcupdate.rcu_task_enqueue_lim is 5555 set to the default value of -1. 5556 5557 rcupdate.rcu_task_contend_lim= [KNL] 5558 Set the minimum number of callback-queuing-time 5559 lock-contention events per jiffy required to 5560 cause the RCU Tasks flavors to switch to per-CPU 5561 callback queuing. This switching only occurs 5562 when rcupdate.rcu_task_enqueue_lim is set to 5563 the default value of -1. 5564 5565 rcupdate.rcu_task_enqueue_lim= [KNL] 5566 Set the number of callback queues to use for the 5567 RCU Tasks family of RCU flavors. The default 5568 of -1 allows this to be automatically (and 5569 dynamically) adjusted. This parameter is intended 5570 for use in testing. 5571 5572 rcupdate.rcu_task_ipi_delay= [KNL] 5573 Set time in jiffies during which RCU tasks will 5574 avoid sending IPIs, starting with the beginning 5575 of a given grace period. Setting a large 5576 number avoids disturbing real-time workloads, 5577 but lengthens grace periods. 5578 5579 rcupdate.rcu_task_lazy_lim= [KNL] 5580 Number of callbacks on a given CPU that will 5581 cancel laziness on that CPU. Use -1 to disable 5582 cancellation of laziness, but be advised that 5583 doing so increases the danger of OOM due to 5584 callback flooding. 5585 5586 rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_info= [KNL] 5587 Set initial timeout in jiffies for RCU task stall 5588 informational messages, which give some indication 5589 of the problem for those not patient enough to 5590 wait for ten minutes. Informational messages are 5591 only printed prior to the stall-warning message 5592 for a given grace period. Disable with a value 5593 less than or equal to zero. Defaults to ten 5594 seconds. A change in value does not take effect 5595 until the beginning of the next grace period. 5596 5597 rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_info_mult= [KNL] 5598 Multiplier for time interval between successive 5599 RCU task stall informational messages for a given 5600 RCU tasks grace period. This value is clamped 5601 to one through ten, inclusive. It defaults to 5602 the value three, so that the first informational 5603 message is printed 10 seconds into the grace 5604 period, the second at 40 seconds, the third at 5605 160 seconds, and then the stall warning at 600 5606 seconds would prevent a fourth at 640 seconds. 5607 5608 rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_timeout= [KNL] 5609 Set timeout in jiffies for RCU task stall 5610 warning messages. Disable with a value less 5611 than or equal to zero. Defaults to ten minutes. 5612 A change in value does not take effect until 5613 the beginning of the next grace period. 5614 5615 rcupdate.rcu_tasks_lazy_ms= [KNL] 5616 Set timeout in milliseconds RCU Tasks asynchronous 5617 callback batching for call_rcu_tasks(). 5618 A negative value will take the default. A value 5619 of zero will disable batching. Batching is 5620 always disabled for synchronize_rcu_tasks(). 5621 5622 rcupdate.rcu_tasks_trace_lazy_ms= [KNL] 5623 Set timeout in milliseconds RCU Tasks 5624 Trace asynchronous callback batching for 5625 call_rcu_tasks_trace(). A negative value 5626 will take the default. A value of zero will 5627 disable batching. Batching is always disabled 5628 for synchronize_rcu_tasks_trace(). 5629 5630 rcupdate.rcu_self_test= [KNL] 5631 Run the RCU early boot self tests 5632 5633 rdinit= [KNL] 5634 Format: <full_path> 5635 Run specified binary instead of /init from the ramdisk, 5636 used for early userspace startup. See initrd. 5637 5638 rdrand= [X86,EARLY] 5639 force - Override the decision by the kernel to hide the 5640 advertisement of RDRAND support (this affects 5641 certain AMD processors because of buggy BIOS 5642 support, specifically around the suspend/resume 5643 path). 5644 5645 rdt= [HW,X86,RDT] 5646 Turn on/off individual RDT features. List is: 5647 cmt, mbmtotal, mbmlocal, l3cat, l3cdp, l2cat, l2cdp, 5648 mba, smba, bmec. 5649 E.g. to turn on cmt and turn off mba use: 5650 rdt=cmt,!mba 5651 5652 reboot= [KNL] 5653 Format (x86 or x86_64): 5654 [w[arm] | c[old] | h[ard] | s[oft] | g[pio]] | d[efault] \ 5655 [[,]s[mp]#### \ 5656 [[,]b[ios] | a[cpi] | k[bd] | t[riple] | e[fi] | p[ci]] \ 5657 [[,]f[orce] 5658 Where reboot_mode is one of warm (soft) or cold (hard) or gpio 5659 (prefix with 'panic_' to set mode for panic 5660 reboot only), 5661 reboot_type is one of bios, acpi, kbd, triple, efi, or pci, 5662 reboot_force is either force or not specified, 5663 reboot_cpu is s[mp]#### with #### being the processor 5664 to be used for rebooting. 5665 5666 refscale.holdoff= [KNL] 5667 Set test-start holdoff period. The purpose of 5668 this parameter is to delay the start of the 5669 test until boot completes in order to avoid 5670 interference. 5671 5672 refscale.lookup_instances= [KNL] 5673 Number of data elements to use for the forms of 5674 SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU testing. A negative number 5675 is negated and multiplied by nr_cpu_ids, while 5676 zero specifies nr_cpu_ids. 5677 5678 refscale.loops= [KNL] 5679 Set the number of loops over the synchronization 5680 primitive under test. Increasing this number 5681 reduces noise due to loop start/end overhead, 5682 but the default has already reduced the per-pass 5683 noise to a handful of picoseconds on ca. 2020 5684 x86 laptops. 5685 5686 refscale.nreaders= [KNL] 5687 Set number of readers. The default value of -1 5688 selects N, where N is roughly 75% of the number 5689 of CPUs. A value of zero is an interesting choice. 5690 5691 refscale.nruns= [KNL] 5692 Set number of runs, each of which is dumped onto 5693 the console log. 5694 5695 refscale.readdelay= [KNL] 5696 Set the read-side critical-section duration, 5697 measured in microseconds. 5698 5699 refscale.scale_type= [KNL] 5700 Specify the read-protection implementation to test. 5701 5702 refscale.shutdown= [KNL] 5703 Shut down the system at the end of the performance 5704 test. This defaults to 1 (shut it down) when 5705 refscale is built into the kernel and to 0 (leave 5706 it running) when refscale is built as a module. 5707 5708 refscale.verbose= [KNL] 5709 Enable additional printk() statements. 5710 5711 refscale.verbose_batched= [KNL] 5712 Batch the additional printk() statements. If zero 5713 (the default) or negative, print everything. Otherwise, 5714 print every Nth verbose statement, where N is the value 5715 specified. 5716 5717 regulator_ignore_unused 5718 [REGULATOR] 5719 Prevents regulator framework from disabling regulators 5720 that are unused, due no driver claiming them. This may 5721 be useful for debug and development, but should not be 5722 needed on a platform with proper driver support. 5723 5724 relax_domain_level= 5725 [KNL, SMP] Set scheduler's default relax_domain_level. 5726 See Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/cpusets.rst. 5727 5728 reserve= [KNL,BUGS] Force kernel to ignore I/O ports or memory 5729 Format: <base1>,<size1>[,<base2>,<size2>,...] 5730 Reserve I/O ports or memory so the kernel won't use 5731 them. If <base> is less than 0x10000, the region 5732 is assumed to be I/O ports; otherwise it is memory. 5733 5734 reserve_mem= [RAM] 5735 Format: nn[KNG]:<align>:<label> 5736 Reserve physical memory and label it with a name that 5737 other subsystems can use to access it. This is typically 5738 used for systems that do not wipe the RAM, and this command 5739 line will try to reserve the same physical memory on 5740 soft reboots. Note, it is not guaranteed to be the same 5741 location. For example, if anything about the system changes 5742 or if booting a different kernel. It can also fail if KASLR 5743 places the kernel at the location of where the RAM reservation 5744 was from a previous boot, the new reservation will be at a 5745 different location. 5746 Any subsystem using this feature must add a way to verify 5747 that the contents of the physical memory is from a previous 5748 boot, as there may be cases where the memory will not be 5749 located at the same location. 5750 5751 The format is size:align:label for example, to request 5752 12 megabytes of 4096 alignment for ramoops: 5753 5754 reserve_mem=12M:4096:oops ramoops.mem_name=oops 5755 5756 reservetop= [X86-32,EARLY] 5757 Format: nn[KMG] 5758 Reserves a hole at the top of the kernel virtual 5759 address space. 5760 5761 reset_devices [KNL] Force drivers to reset the underlying device 5762 during initialization. 5763 5764 resume= [SWSUSP] 5765 Specify the partition device for software suspend 5766 Format: 5767 {/dev/<dev> | PARTUUID=<uuid> | <int>:<int> | <hex>} 5768 5769 resume_offset= [SWSUSP] 5770 Specify the offset from the beginning of the partition 5771 given by "resume=" at which the swap header is located, 5772 in <PAGE_SIZE> units (needed only for swap files). 5773 See Documentation/power/swsusp-and-swap-files.rst 5774 5775 resumedelay= [HIBERNATION] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to 5776 read the resume files 5777 5778 resumewait [HIBERNATION] Wait (indefinitely) for resume device to show up. 5779 Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously 5780 (e.g. USB and MMC devices). 5781 5782 retain_initrd [RAM] Keep initrd memory after extraction. After boot, it will 5783 be accessible via /sys/firmware/initrd. 5784 5785 retbleed= [X86] Control mitigation of RETBleed (Arbitrary 5786 Speculative Code Execution with Return Instructions) 5787 vulnerability. 5788 5789 AMD-based UNRET and IBPB mitigations alone do not stop 5790 sibling threads from influencing the predictions of other 5791 sibling threads. For that reason, STIBP is used on pro- 5792 cessors that support it, and mitigate SMT on processors 5793 that don't. 5794 5795 off - no mitigation 5796 auto - automatically select a migitation 5797 auto,nosmt - automatically select a mitigation, 5798 disabling SMT if necessary for 5799 the full mitigation (only on Zen1 5800 and older without STIBP). 5801 ibpb - On AMD, mitigate short speculation 5802 windows on basic block boundaries too. 5803 Safe, highest perf impact. It also 5804 enables STIBP if present. Not suitable 5805 on Intel. 5806 ibpb,nosmt - Like "ibpb" above but will disable SMT 5807 when STIBP is not available. This is 5808 the alternative for systems which do not 5809 have STIBP. 5810 unret - Force enable untrained return thunks, 5811 only effective on AMD f15h-f17h based 5812 systems. 5813 unret,nosmt - Like unret, but will disable SMT when STIBP 5814 is not available. This is the alternative for 5815 systems which do not have STIBP. 5816 5817 Selecting 'auto' will choose a mitigation method at run 5818 time according to the CPU. 5819 5820 Not specifying this option is equivalent to retbleed=auto. 5821 5822 rfkill.default_state= 5823 0 "airplane mode". All wifi, bluetooth, wimax, gps, fm, 5824 etc. communication is blocked by default. 5825 1 Unblocked. 5826 5827 rfkill.master_switch_mode= 5828 0 The "airplane mode" button does nothing. 5829 1 The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything 5830 blocked and the previous configuration. 5831 2 The "airplane mode" button toggles between everything 5832 blocked and everything unblocked. 5833 5834 ring3mwait=disable 5835 [KNL] Disable ring 3 MONITOR/MWAIT feature on supported 5836 CPUs. 5837 5838 riscv_isa_fallback [RISCV,EARLY] 5839 When CONFIG_RISCV_ISA_FALLBACK is not enabled, permit 5840 falling back to detecting extension support by parsing 5841 "riscv,isa" property on devicetree systems when the 5842 replacement properties are not found. See the Kconfig 5843 entry for RISCV_ISA_FALLBACK. 5844 5845 ro [KNL] Mount root device read-only on boot 5846 5847 rodata= [KNL,EARLY] 5848 on Mark read-only kernel memory as read-only (default). 5849 off Leave read-only kernel memory writable for debugging. 5850 full Mark read-only kernel memory and aliases as read-only 5851 [arm64] 5852 5853 rockchip.usb_uart 5854 [EARLY] 5855 Enable the uart passthrough on the designated usb port 5856 on Rockchip SoCs. When active, the signals of the 5857 debug-uart get routed to the D+ and D- pins of the usb 5858 port and the regular usb controller gets disabled. 5859 5860 root= [KNL] Root filesystem 5861 Usually this a a block device specifier of some kind, 5862 see the early_lookup_bdev comment in 5863 block/early-lookup.c for details. 5864 Alternatively this can be "ram" for the legacy initial 5865 ramdisk, "nfs" and "cifs" for root on a network file 5866 system, or "mtd" and "ubi" for mounting from raw flash. 5867 5868 rootdelay= [KNL] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to 5869 mount the root filesystem 5870 5871 rootflags= [KNL] Set root filesystem mount option string 5872 5873 rootfstype= [KNL] Set root filesystem type 5874 5875 rootwait [KNL] Wait (indefinitely) for root device to show up. 5876 Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously 5877 (e.g. USB and MMC devices). 5878 5879 rootwait= [KNL] Maximum time (in seconds) to wait for root device 5880 to show up before attempting to mount the root 5881 filesystem. 5882 5883 rproc_mem=nn[KMG][@address] 5884 [KNL,ARM,CMA] Remoteproc physical memory block. 5885 Memory area to be used by remote processor image, 5886 managed by CMA. 5887 5888 rw [KNL] Mount root device read-write on boot 5889 5890 S [KNL] Run init in single mode 5891 5892 s390_iommu= [HW,S390] 5893 Set s390 IOTLB flushing mode 5894 strict 5895 With strict flushing every unmap operation will result 5896 in an IOTLB flush. Default is lazy flushing before 5897 reuse, which is faster. Deprecated, equivalent to 5898 iommu.strict=1. 5899 5900 s390_iommu_aperture= [KNL,S390] 5901 Specifies the size of the per device DMA address space 5902 accessible through the DMA and IOMMU APIs as a decimal 5903 factor of the size of main memory. 5904 The default is 1 meaning that one can concurrently use 5905 as many DMA addresses as physical memory is installed, 5906 if supported by hardware, and thus map all of memory 5907 once. With a value of 2 one can map all of memory twice 5908 and so on. As a special case a factor of 0 imposes no 5909 restrictions other than those given by hardware at the 5910 cost of significant additional memory use for tables. 5911 5912 sa1100ir [NET] 5913 See drivers/net/irda/sa1100_ir.c. 5914 5915 sched_verbose [KNL,EARLY] Enables verbose scheduler debug messages. 5916 5917 schedstats= [KNL,X86] Enable or disable scheduled statistics. 5918 Allowed values are enable and disable. This feature 5919 incurs a small amount of overhead in the scheduler 5920 but is useful for debugging and performance tuning. 5921 5922 sched_thermal_decay_shift= 5923 [Deprecated] 5924 [KNL, SMP] Set a decay shift for scheduler thermal 5925 pressure signal. Thermal pressure signal follows the 5926 default decay period of other scheduler pelt 5927 signals(usually 32 ms but configurable). Setting 5928 sched_thermal_decay_shift will left shift the decay 5929 period for the thermal pressure signal by the shift 5930 value. 5931 i.e. with the default pelt decay period of 32 ms 5932 sched_thermal_decay_shift thermal pressure decay pr 5933 1 64 ms 5934 2 128 ms 5935 and so on. 5936 Format: integer between 0 and 10 5937 Default is 0. 5938 5939 scftorture.holdoff= [KNL] 5940 Number of seconds to hold off before starting 5941 test. Defaults to zero for module insertion and 5942 to 10 seconds for built-in smp_call_function() 5943 tests. 5944 5945 scftorture.longwait= [KNL] 5946 Request ridiculously long waits randomly selected 5947 up to the chosen limit in seconds. Zero (the 5948 default) disables this feature. Please note 5949 that requesting even small non-zero numbers of 5950 seconds can result in RCU CPU stall warnings, 5951 softlockup complaints, and so on. 5952 5953 scftorture.nthreads= [KNL] 5954 Number of kthreads to spawn to invoke the 5955 smp_call_function() family of functions. 5956 The default of -1 specifies a number of kthreads 5957 equal to the number of CPUs. 5958 5959 scftorture.onoff_holdoff= [KNL] 5960 Number seconds to wait after the start of the 5961 test before initiating CPU-hotplug operations. 5962 5963 scftorture.onoff_interval= [KNL] 5964 Number seconds to wait between successive 5965 CPU-hotplug operations. Specifying zero (which 5966 is the default) disables CPU-hotplug operations. 5967 5968 scftorture.shutdown_secs= [KNL] 5969 The number of seconds following the start of the 5970 test after which to shut down the system. The 5971 default of zero avoids shutting down the system. 5972 Non-zero values are useful for automated tests. 5973 5974 scftorture.stat_interval= [KNL] 5975 The number of seconds between outputting the 5976 current test statistics to the console. A value 5977 of zero disables statistics output. 5978 5979 scftorture.stutter_cpus= [KNL] 5980 The number of jiffies to wait between each change 5981 to the set of CPUs under test. 5982 5983 scftorture.use_cpus_read_lock= [KNL] 5984 Use use_cpus_read_lock() instead of the default 5985 preempt_disable() to disable CPU hotplug 5986 while invoking one of the smp_call_function*() 5987 functions. 5988 5989 scftorture.verbose= [KNL] 5990 Enable additional printk() statements. 5991 5992 scftorture.weight_single= [KNL] 5993 The probability weighting to use for the 5994 smp_call_function_single() function with a zero 5995 "wait" parameter. A value of -1 selects the 5996 default if all other weights are -1. However, 5997 if at least one weight has some other value, a 5998 value of -1 will instead select a weight of zero. 5999 6000 scftorture.weight_single_wait= [KNL] 6001 The probability weighting to use for the 6002 smp_call_function_single() function with a 6003 non-zero "wait" parameter. See weight_single. 6004 6005 scftorture.weight_many= [KNL] 6006 The probability weighting to use for the 6007 smp_call_function_many() function with a zero 6008 "wait" parameter. See weight_single. 6009 Note well that setting a high probability for 6010 this weighting can place serious IPI load 6011 on the system. 6012 6013 scftorture.weight_many_wait= [KNL] 6014 The probability weighting to use for the 6015 smp_call_function_many() function with a 6016 non-zero "wait" parameter. See weight_single 6017 and weight_many. 6018 6019 scftorture.weight_all= [KNL] 6020 The probability weighting to use for the 6021 smp_call_function_all() function with a zero 6022 "wait" parameter. See weight_single and 6023 weight_many. 6024 6025 scftorture.weight_all_wait= [KNL] 6026 The probability weighting to use for the 6027 smp_call_function_all() function with a 6028 non-zero "wait" parameter. See weight_single 6029 and weight_many. 6030 6031 skew_tick= [KNL,EARLY] Offset the periodic timer tick per cpu to mitigate 6032 xtime_lock contention on larger systems, and/or RCU lock 6033 contention on all systems with CONFIG_MAXSMP set. 6034 Format: { "0" | "1" } 6035 0 -- disable. (may be 1 via CONFIG_CMDLINE="skew_tick=1" 6036 1 -- enable. 6037 Note: increases power consumption, thus should only be 6038 enabled if running jitter sensitive (HPC/RT) workloads. 6039 6040 security= [SECURITY] Choose a legacy "major" security module to 6041 enable at boot. This has been deprecated by the 6042 "lsm=" parameter. 6043 6044 selinux= [SELINUX] Disable or enable SELinux at boot time. 6045 Format: { "0" | "1" } 6046 See security/selinux/Kconfig help text. 6047 0 -- disable. 6048 1 -- enable. 6049 Default value is 1. 6050 6051 serialnumber [BUGS=X86-32] 6052 6053 sev=option[,option...] [X86-64] See Documentation/arch/x86/x86_64/boot-options.rst 6054 6055 shapers= [NET] 6056 Maximal number of shapers. 6057 6058 show_lapic= [APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller 6059 Limit apic dumping. The parameter defines the maximal 6060 number of local apics being dumped. Also it is possible 6061 to set it to "all" by meaning -- no limit here. 6062 Format: { 1 (default) | 2 | ... | all }. 6063 The parameter valid if only apic=debug or 6064 apic=verbose is specified. 6065 Example: apic=debug show_lapic=all 6066 6067 slab_debug[=options[,slabs][;[options[,slabs]]...] [MM] 6068 Enabling slab_debug allows one to determine the 6069 culprit if slab objects become corrupted. Enabling 6070 slab_debug can create guard zones around objects and 6071 may poison objects when not in use. Also tracks the 6072 last alloc / free. For more information see 6073 Documentation/mm/slub.rst. 6074 (slub_debug legacy name also accepted for now) 6075 6076 slab_max_order= [MM] 6077 Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs. 6078 A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory 6079 fragmentation. For more information see 6080 Documentation/mm/slub.rst. 6081 (slub_max_order legacy name also accepted for now) 6082 6083 slab_merge [MM] 6084 Enable merging of slabs with similar size when the 6085 kernel is built without CONFIG_SLAB_MERGE_DEFAULT. 6086 (slub_merge legacy name also accepted for now) 6087 6088 slab_min_objects= [MM] 6089 The minimum number of objects per slab. SLUB will 6090 increase the slab order up to slab_max_order to 6091 generate a sufficiently large slab able to contain 6092 the number of objects indicated. The higher the number 6093 of objects the smaller the overhead of tracking slabs 6094 and the less frequently locks need to be acquired. 6095 For more information see Documentation/mm/slub.rst. 6096 (slub_min_objects legacy name also accepted for now) 6097 6098 slab_min_order= [MM] 6099 Determines the minimum page order for slabs. Must be 6100 lower or equal to slab_max_order. For more information see 6101 Documentation/mm/slub.rst. 6102 (slub_min_order legacy name also accepted for now) 6103 6104 slab_nomerge [MM] 6105 Disable merging of slabs with similar size. May be 6106 necessary if there is some reason to distinguish 6107 allocs to different slabs, especially in hardened 6108 environments where the risk of heap overflows and 6109 layout control by attackers can usually be 6110 frustrated by disabling merging. This will reduce 6111 most of the exposure of a heap attack to a single 6112 cache (risks via metadata attacks are mostly 6113 unchanged). Debug options disable merging on their 6114 own. 6115 For more information see Documentation/mm/slub.rst. 6116 (slub_nomerge legacy name also accepted for now) 6117 6118 slram= [HW,MTD] 6119 6120 smart2= [HW] 6121 Format: <io1>[,<io2>[,...,<io8>]] 6122 6123 smp.csd_lock_timeout= [KNL] 6124 Specify the period of time in milliseconds 6125 that smp_call_function() and friends will wait 6126 for a CPU to release the CSD lock. This is 6127 useful when diagnosing bugs involving CPUs 6128 disabling interrupts for extended periods 6129 of time. Defaults to 5,000 milliseconds, and 6130 setting a value of zero disables this feature. 6131 This feature may be more efficiently disabled 6132 using the csdlock_debug- kernel parameter. 6133 6134 smp.panic_on_ipistall= [KNL] 6135 If a csd_lock_timeout extends for more than 6136 the specified number of milliseconds, panic the 6137 system. By default, let CSD-lock acquisition 6138 take as long as they take. Specifying 300,000 6139 for this value provides a 5-minute timeout. 6140 6141 smsc-ircc2.nopnp [HW] Don't use PNP to discover SMC devices 6142 smsc-ircc2.ircc_cfg= [HW] Device configuration I/O port 6143 smsc-ircc2.ircc_sir= [HW] SIR base I/O port 6144 smsc-ircc2.ircc_fir= [HW] FIR base I/O port 6145 smsc-ircc2.ircc_irq= [HW] IRQ line 6146 smsc-ircc2.ircc_dma= [HW] DMA channel 6147 smsc-ircc2.ircc_transceiver= [HW] Transceiver type: 6148 0: Toshiba Satellite 1800 (GP data pin select) 6149 1: Fast pin select (default) 6150 2: ATC IRMode 6151 6152 smt= [KNL,MIPS,S390,EARLY] Set the maximum number of threads 6153 (logical CPUs) to use per physical CPU on systems 6154 capable of symmetric multithreading (SMT). Will 6155 be capped to the actual hardware limit. 6156 Format: <integer> 6157 Default: -1 (no limit) 6158 6159 softlockup_panic= 6160 [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate panics. 6161 Format: 0 | 1 6162 6163 A value of 1 instructs the soft-lockup detector 6164 to panic the machine when a soft-lockup occurs. It is 6165 also controlled by the kernel.softlockup_panic sysctl 6166 and CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC, which is the 6167 respective build-time switch to that functionality. 6168 6169 softlockup_all_cpu_backtrace= 6170 [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate 6171 backtraces on all cpus. 6172 Format: 0 | 1 6173 6174 sonypi.*= [HW] Sony Programmable I/O Control Device driver 6175 See Documentation/admin-guide/laptops/sonypi.rst 6176 6177 spectre_bhi= [X86] Control mitigation of Branch History Injection 6178 (BHI) vulnerability. This setting affects the 6179 deployment of the HW BHI control and the SW BHB 6180 clearing sequence. 6181 6182 on - (default) Enable the HW or SW mitigation as 6183 needed. This protects the kernel from 6184 both syscalls and VMs. 6185 vmexit - On systems which don't have the HW mitigation 6186 available, enable the SW mitigation on vmexit 6187 ONLY. On such systems, the host kernel is 6188 protected from VM-originated BHI attacks, but 6189 may still be vulnerable to syscall attacks. 6190 off - Disable the mitigation. 6191 6192 spectre_v2= [X86,EARLY] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2 6193 (indirect branch speculation) vulnerability. 6194 The default operation protects the kernel from 6195 user space attacks. 6196 6197 on - unconditionally enable, implies 6198 spectre_v2_user=on 6199 off - unconditionally disable, implies 6200 spectre_v2_user=off 6201 auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is 6202 vulnerable 6203 6204 Selecting 'on' will, and 'auto' may, choose a 6205 mitigation method at run time according to the 6206 CPU, the available microcode, the setting of the 6207 CONFIG_MITIGATION_RETPOLINE configuration option, 6208 and the compiler with which the kernel was built. 6209 6210 Selecting 'on' will also enable the mitigation 6211 against user space to user space task attacks. 6212 6213 Selecting 'off' will disable both the kernel and 6214 the user space protections. 6215 6216 Specific mitigations can also be selected manually: 6217 6218 retpoline - replace indirect branches 6219 retpoline,generic - Retpolines 6220 retpoline,lfence - LFENCE; indirect branch 6221 retpoline,amd - alias for retpoline,lfence 6222 eibrs - Enhanced/Auto IBRS 6223 eibrs,retpoline - Enhanced/Auto IBRS + Retpolines 6224 eibrs,lfence - Enhanced/Auto IBRS + LFENCE 6225 ibrs - use IBRS to protect kernel 6226 6227 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 6228 spectre_v2=auto. 6229 6230 spectre_v2_user= 6231 [X86] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2 6232 (indirect branch speculation) vulnerability between 6233 user space tasks 6234 6235 on - Unconditionally enable mitigations. Is 6236 enforced by spectre_v2=on 6237 6238 off - Unconditionally disable mitigations. Is 6239 enforced by spectre_v2=off 6240 6241 prctl - Indirect branch speculation is enabled, 6242 but mitigation can be enabled via prctl 6243 per thread. The mitigation control state 6244 is inherited on fork. 6245 6246 prctl,ibpb 6247 - Like "prctl" above, but only STIBP is 6248 controlled per thread. IBPB is issued 6249 always when switching between different user 6250 space processes. 6251 6252 seccomp 6253 - Same as "prctl" above, but all seccomp 6254 threads will enable the mitigation unless 6255 they explicitly opt out. 6256 6257 seccomp,ibpb 6258 - Like "seccomp" above, but only STIBP is 6259 controlled per thread. IBPB is issued 6260 always when switching between different 6261 user space processes. 6262 6263 auto - Kernel selects the mitigation depending on 6264 the available CPU features and vulnerability. 6265 6266 Default mitigation: "prctl" 6267 6268 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 6269 spectre_v2_user=auto. 6270 6271 spec_rstack_overflow= 6272 [X86,EARLY] Control RAS overflow mitigation on AMD Zen CPUs 6273 6274 off - Disable mitigation 6275 microcode - Enable microcode mitigation only 6276 safe-ret - Enable sw-only safe RET mitigation (default) 6277 ibpb - Enable mitigation by issuing IBPB on 6278 kernel entry 6279 ibpb-vmexit - Issue IBPB only on VMEXIT 6280 (cloud-specific mitigation) 6281 6282 spec_store_bypass_disable= 6283 [HW,EARLY] Control Speculative Store Bypass (SSB) Disable mitigation 6284 (Speculative Store Bypass vulnerability) 6285 6286 Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against a 6287 a common industry wide performance optimization known 6288 as "Speculative Store Bypass" in which recent stores 6289 to the same memory location may not be observed by 6290 later loads during speculative execution. The idea 6291 is that such stores are unlikely and that they can 6292 be detected prior to instruction retirement at the 6293 end of a particular speculation execution window. 6294 6295 In vulnerable processors, the speculatively forwarded 6296 store can be used in a cache side channel attack, for 6297 example to read memory to which the attacker does not 6298 directly have access (e.g. inside sandboxed code). 6299 6300 This parameter controls whether the Speculative Store 6301 Bypass optimization is used. 6302 6303 On x86 the options are: 6304 6305 on - Unconditionally disable Speculative Store Bypass 6306 off - Unconditionally enable Speculative Store Bypass 6307 auto - Kernel detects whether the CPU model contains an 6308 implementation of Speculative Store Bypass and 6309 picks the most appropriate mitigation. If the 6310 CPU is not vulnerable, "off" is selected. If the 6311 CPU is vulnerable the default mitigation is 6312 architecture and Kconfig dependent. See below. 6313 prctl - Control Speculative Store Bypass per thread 6314 via prctl. Speculative Store Bypass is enabled 6315 for a process by default. The state of the control 6316 is inherited on fork. 6317 seccomp - Same as "prctl" above, but all seccomp threads 6318 will disable SSB unless they explicitly opt out. 6319 6320 Default mitigations: 6321 X86: "prctl" 6322 6323 On powerpc the options are: 6324 6325 on,auto - On Power8 and Power9 insert a store-forwarding 6326 barrier on kernel entry and exit. On Power7 6327 perform a software flush on kernel entry and 6328 exit. 6329 off - No action. 6330 6331 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 6332 spec_store_bypass_disable=auto. 6333 6334 split_lock_detect= 6335 [X86] Enable split lock detection or bus lock detection 6336 6337 When enabled (and if hardware support is present), atomic 6338 instructions that access data across cache line 6339 boundaries will result in an alignment check exception 6340 for split lock detection or a debug exception for 6341 bus lock detection. 6342 6343 off - not enabled 6344 6345 warn - the kernel will emit rate-limited warnings 6346 about applications triggering the #AC 6347 exception or the #DB exception. This mode is 6348 the default on CPUs that support split lock 6349 detection or bus lock detection. Default 6350 behavior is by #AC if both features are 6351 enabled in hardware. 6352 6353 fatal - the kernel will send SIGBUS to applications 6354 that trigger the #AC exception or the #DB 6355 exception. Default behavior is by #AC if 6356 both features are enabled in hardware. 6357 6358 ratelimit:N - 6359 Set system wide rate limit to N bus locks 6360 per second for bus lock detection. 6361 0 < N <= 1000. 6362 6363 N/A for split lock detection. 6364 6365 6366 If an #AC exception is hit in the kernel or in 6367 firmware (i.e. not while executing in user mode) 6368 the kernel will oops in either "warn" or "fatal" 6369 mode. 6370 6371 #DB exception for bus lock is triggered only when 6372 CPL > 0. 6373 6374 srbds= [X86,INTEL,EARLY] 6375 Control the Special Register Buffer Data Sampling 6376 (SRBDS) mitigation. 6377 6378 Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an MDS-like 6379 exploit which can leak bits from the random 6380 number generator. 6381 6382 By default, this issue is mitigated by 6383 microcode. However, the microcode fix can cause 6384 the RDRAND and RDSEED instructions to become 6385 much slower. Among other effects, this will 6386 result in reduced throughput from /dev/urandom. 6387 6388 The microcode mitigation can be disabled with 6389 the following option: 6390 6391 off: Disable mitigation and remove 6392 performance impact to RDRAND and RDSEED 6393 6394 srcutree.big_cpu_lim [KNL] 6395 Specifies the number of CPUs constituting a 6396 large system, such that srcu_struct structures 6397 should immediately allocate an srcu_node array. 6398 This kernel-boot parameter defaults to 128, 6399 but takes effect only when the low-order four 6400 bits of srcutree.convert_to_big is equal to 3 6401 (decide at boot). 6402 6403 srcutree.convert_to_big [KNL] 6404 Specifies under what conditions an SRCU tree 6405 srcu_struct structure will be converted to big 6406 form, that is, with an rcu_node tree: 6407 6408 0: Never. 6409 1: At init_srcu_struct() time. 6410 2: When rcutorture decides to. 6411 3: Decide at boot time (default). 6412 0x1X: Above plus if high contention. 6413 6414 Either way, the srcu_node tree will be sized based 6415 on the actual runtime number of CPUs (nr_cpu_ids) 6416 instead of the compile-time CONFIG_NR_CPUS. 6417 6418 srcutree.counter_wrap_check [KNL] 6419 Specifies how frequently to check for 6420 grace-period sequence counter wrap for the 6421 srcu_data structure's ->srcu_gp_seq_needed field. 6422 The greater the number of bits set in this kernel 6423 parameter, the less frequently counter wrap will 6424 be checked for. Note that the bottom two bits 6425 are ignored. 6426 6427 srcutree.exp_holdoff [KNL] 6428 Specifies how many nanoseconds must elapse 6429 since the end of the last SRCU grace period for 6430 a given srcu_struct until the next normal SRCU 6431 grace period will be considered for automatic 6432 expediting. Set to zero to disable automatic 6433 expediting. 6434 6435 srcutree.srcu_max_nodelay [KNL] 6436 Specifies the number of no-delay instances 6437 per jiffy for which the SRCU grace period 6438 worker thread will be rescheduled with zero 6439 delay. Beyond this limit, worker thread will 6440 be rescheduled with a sleep delay of one jiffy. 6441 6442 srcutree.srcu_max_nodelay_phase [KNL] 6443 Specifies the per-grace-period phase, number of 6444 non-sleeping polls of readers. Beyond this limit, 6445 grace period worker thread will be rescheduled 6446 with a sleep delay of one jiffy, between each 6447 rescan of the readers, for a grace period phase. 6448 6449 srcutree.srcu_retry_check_delay [KNL] 6450 Specifies number of microseconds of non-sleeping 6451 delay between each non-sleeping poll of readers. 6452 6453 srcutree.small_contention_lim [KNL] 6454 Specifies the number of update-side contention 6455 events per jiffy will be tolerated before 6456 initiating a conversion of an srcu_struct 6457 structure to big form. Note that the value of 6458 srcutree.convert_to_big must have the 0x10 bit 6459 set for contention-based conversions to occur. 6460 6461 ssbd= [ARM64,HW,EARLY] 6462 Speculative Store Bypass Disable control 6463 6464 On CPUs that are vulnerable to the Speculative 6465 Store Bypass vulnerability and offer a 6466 firmware based mitigation, this parameter 6467 indicates how the mitigation should be used: 6468 6469 force-on: Unconditionally enable mitigation for 6470 for both kernel and userspace 6471 force-off: Unconditionally disable mitigation for 6472 for both kernel and userspace 6473 kernel: Always enable mitigation in the 6474 kernel, and offer a prctl interface 6475 to allow userspace to register its 6476 interest in being mitigated too. 6477 6478 stack_guard_gap= [MM] 6479 override the default stack gap protection. The value 6480 is in page units and it defines how many pages prior 6481 to (for stacks growing down) resp. after (for stacks 6482 growing up) the main stack are reserved for no other 6483 mapping. Default value is 256 pages. 6484 6485 stack_depot_disable= [KNL,EARLY] 6486 Setting this to true through kernel command line will 6487 disable the stack depot thereby saving the static memory 6488 consumed by the stack hash table. By default this is set 6489 to false. 6490 6491 stacktrace [FTRACE] 6492 Enabled the stack tracer on boot up. 6493 6494 stacktrace_filter=[function-list] 6495 [FTRACE] Limit the functions that the stack tracer 6496 will trace at boot up. function-list is a comma-separated 6497 list of functions. This list can be changed at run 6498 time by the stack_trace_filter file in the debugfs 6499 tracing directory. Note, this enables stack tracing 6500 and the stacktrace above is not needed. 6501 6502 sti= [PARISC,HW] 6503 Format: <num> 6504 Set the STI (builtin display/keyboard on the HP-PARISC 6505 machines) console (graphic card) which should be used 6506 as the initial boot-console. 6507 See also comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c. 6508 6509 sti_font= [HW] 6510 See comment in drivers/video/console/sticore.c. 6511 6512 stifb= [HW] 6513 Format: bpp:<bpp1>[:<bpp2>[:<bpp3>...]] 6514 6515 strict_sas_size= 6516 [X86] 6517 Format: <bool> 6518 Enable or disable strict sigaltstack size checks 6519 against the required signal frame size which 6520 depends on the supported FPU features. This can 6521 be used to filter out binaries which have 6522 not yet been made aware of AT_MINSIGSTKSZ. 6523 6524 stress_hpt [PPC,EARLY] 6525 Limits the number of kernel HPT entries in the hash 6526 page table to increase the rate of hash page table 6527 faults on kernel addresses. 6528 6529 stress_slb [PPC,EARLY] 6530 Limits the number of kernel SLB entries, and flushes 6531 them frequently to increase the rate of SLB faults 6532 on kernel addresses. 6533 6534 sunrpc.min_resvport= 6535 sunrpc.max_resvport= 6536 [NFS,SUNRPC] 6537 SunRPC servers often require that client requests 6538 originate from a privileged port (i.e. a port in the 6539 range 0 < portnr < 1024). 6540 An administrator who wishes to reserve some of these 6541 ports for other uses may adjust the range that the 6542 kernel's sunrpc client considers to be privileged 6543 using these two parameters to set the minimum and 6544 maximum port values. 6545 6546 sunrpc.svc_rpc_per_connection_limit= 6547 [NFS,SUNRPC] 6548 Limit the number of requests that the server will 6549 process in parallel from a single connection. 6550 The default value is 0 (no limit). 6551 6552 sunrpc.pool_mode= 6553 [NFS] 6554 Control how the NFS server code allocates CPUs to 6555 service thread pools. Depending on how many NICs 6556 you have and where their interrupts are bound, this 6557 option will affect which CPUs will do NFS serving. 6558 Note: this parameter cannot be changed while the 6559 NFS server is running. 6560 6561 auto the server chooses an appropriate mode 6562 automatically using heuristics 6563 global a single global pool contains all CPUs 6564 percpu one pool for each CPU 6565 pernode one pool for each NUMA node (equivalent 6566 to global on non-NUMA machines) 6567 6568 sunrpc.tcp_slot_table_entries= 6569 sunrpc.udp_slot_table_entries= 6570 [NFS,SUNRPC] 6571 Sets the upper limit on the number of simultaneous 6572 RPC calls that can be sent from the client to a 6573 server. Increasing these values may allow you to 6574 improve throughput, but will also increase the 6575 amount of memory reserved for use by the client. 6576 6577 suspend.pm_test_delay= 6578 [SUSPEND] 6579 Sets the number of seconds to remain in a suspend test 6580 mode before resuming the system (see 6581 /sys/power/pm_test). Only available when CONFIG_PM_DEBUG 6582 is set. Default value is 5. 6583 6584 svm= [PPC] 6585 Format: { on | off | y | n | 1 | 0 } 6586 This parameter controls use of the Protected 6587 Execution Facility on pSeries. 6588 6589 swiotlb= [ARM,PPC,MIPS,X86,S390,EARLY] 6590 Format: { <int> [,<int>] | force | noforce } 6591 <int> -- Number of I/O TLB slabs 6592 <int> -- Second integer after comma. Number of swiotlb 6593 areas with their own lock. Will be rounded up 6594 to a power of 2. 6595 force -- force using of bounce buffers even if they 6596 wouldn't be automatically used by the kernel 6597 noforce -- Never use bounce buffers (for debugging) 6598 6599 switches= [HW,M68k,EARLY] 6600 6601 sysctl.*= [KNL] 6602 Set a sysctl parameter, right before loading the init 6603 process, as if the value was written to the respective 6604 /proc/sys/... file. Both '.' and '/' are recognized as 6605 separators. Unrecognized parameters and invalid values 6606 are reported in the kernel log. Sysctls registered 6607 later by a loaded module cannot be set this way. 6608 Example: sysctl.vm.swappiness=40 6609 6610 sysrq_always_enabled 6611 [KNL] 6612 Ignore sysrq setting - this boot parameter will 6613 neutralize any effect of /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq. 6614 Useful for debugging. 6615 6616 tcpmhash_entries= [KNL,NET] 6617 Set the number of tcp_metrics_hash slots. 6618 Default value is 8192 or 16384 depending on total 6619 ram pages. This is used to specify the TCP metrics 6620 cache size. See Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.rst 6621 "tcp_no_metrics_save" section for more details. 6622 6623 tdfx= [HW,DRM] 6624 6625 test_suspend= [SUSPEND] 6626 Format: { "mem" | "standby" | "freeze" }[,N] 6627 Specify "mem" (for Suspend-to-RAM) or "standby" (for 6628 standby suspend) or "freeze" (for suspend type freeze) 6629 as the system sleep state during system startup with 6630 the optional capability to repeat N number of times. 6631 The system is woken from this state using a 6632 wakeup-capable RTC alarm. 6633 6634 thash_entries= [KNL,NET] 6635 Set number of hash buckets for TCP connection 6636 6637 thermal.act= [HW,ACPI] 6638 -1: disable all active trip points in all thermal zones 6639 <degrees C>: override all lowest active trip points 6640 6641 thermal.crt= [HW,ACPI] 6642 -1: disable all critical trip points in all thermal zones 6643 <degrees C>: override all critical trip points 6644 6645 thermal.off= [HW,ACPI] 6646 1: disable ACPI thermal control 6647 6648 thermal.psv= [HW,ACPI] 6649 -1: disable all passive trip points 6650 <degrees C>: override all passive trip points to this 6651 value 6652 6653 thermal.tzp= [HW,ACPI] 6654 Specify global default ACPI thermal zone polling rate 6655 <deci-seconds>: poll all this frequency 6656 0: no polling (default) 6657 6658 threadirqs [KNL,EARLY] 6659 Force threading of all interrupt handlers except those 6660 marked explicitly IRQF_NO_THREAD. 6661 6662 topology= [S390,EARLY] 6663 Format: {off | on} 6664 Specify if the kernel should make use of the cpu 6665 topology information if the hardware supports this. 6666 The scheduler will make use of this information and 6667 e.g. base its process migration decisions on it. 6668 Default is on. 6669 6670 torture.disable_onoff_at_boot= [KNL] 6671 Prevent the CPU-hotplug component of torturing 6672 until after init has spawned. 6673 6674 torture.ftrace_dump_at_shutdown= [KNL] 6675 Dump the ftrace buffer at torture-test shutdown, 6676 even if there were no errors. This can be a 6677 very costly operation when many torture tests 6678 are running concurrently, especially on systems 6679 with rotating-rust storage. 6680 6681 torture.verbose_sleep_frequency= [KNL] 6682 Specifies how many verbose printk()s should be 6683 emitted between each sleep. The default of zero 6684 disables verbose-printk() sleeping. 6685 6686 torture.verbose_sleep_duration= [KNL] 6687 Duration of each verbose-printk() sleep in jiffies. 6688 6689 tpm_suspend_pcr=[HW,TPM] 6690 Format: integer pcr id 6691 Specify that at suspend time, the tpm driver 6692 should extend the specified pcr with zeros, 6693 as a workaround for some chips which fail to 6694 flush the last written pcr on TPM_SaveState. 6695 This will guarantee that all the other pcrs 6696 are saved. 6697 6698 tpm_tis.interrupts= [HW,TPM] 6699 Enable interrupts for the MMIO based physical layer 6700 for the FIFO interface. By default it is set to false 6701 (0). For more information about TPM hardware interfaces 6702 defined by Trusted Computing Group (TCG) see 6703 https://trustedcomputinggroup.org/resource/pc-client-platform-tpm-profile-ptp-specification/ 6704 6705 tp_printk [FTRACE] 6706 Have the tracepoints sent to printk as well as the 6707 tracing ring buffer. This is useful for early boot up 6708 where the system hangs or reboots and does not give the 6709 option for reading the tracing buffer or performing a 6710 ftrace_dump_on_oops. 6711 6712 To turn off having tracepoints sent to printk, 6713 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/tracepoint_printk 6714 Note, echoing 1 into this file without the 6715 tp_printk kernel cmdline option has no effect. 6716 6717 The tp_printk_stop_on_boot (see below) can also be used 6718 to stop the printing of events to console at 6719 late_initcall_sync. 6720 6721 ** CAUTION ** 6722 6723 Having tracepoints sent to printk() and activating high 6724 frequency tracepoints such as irq or sched, can cause 6725 the system to live lock. 6726 6727 tp_printk_stop_on_boot [FTRACE] 6728 When tp_printk (above) is set, it can cause a lot of noise 6729 on the console. It may be useful to only include the 6730 printing of events during boot up, as user space may 6731 make the system inoperable. 6732 6733 This command line option will stop the printing of events 6734 to console at the late_initcall_sync() time frame. 6735 6736 trace_buf_size=nn[KMG] 6737 [FTRACE] will set tracing buffer size on each cpu. 6738 6739 trace_clock= [FTRACE] Set the clock used for tracing events 6740 at boot up. 6741 local - Use the per CPU time stamp counter 6742 (converted into nanoseconds). Fast, but 6743 depending on the architecture, may not be 6744 in sync between CPUs. 6745 global - Event time stamps are synchronize across 6746 CPUs. May be slower than the local clock, 6747 but better for some race conditions. 6748 counter - Simple counting of events (1, 2, ..) 6749 note, some counts may be skipped due to the 6750 infrastructure grabbing the clock more than 6751 once per event. 6752 uptime - Use jiffies as the time stamp. 6753 perf - Use the same clock that perf uses. 6754 mono - Use ktime_get_mono_fast_ns() for time stamps. 6755 mono_raw - Use ktime_get_raw_fast_ns() for time 6756 stamps. 6757 boot - Use ktime_get_boot_fast_ns() for time stamps. 6758 Architectures may add more clocks. See 6759 Documentation/trace/ftrace.rst for more details. 6760 6761 trace_event=[event-list] 6762 [FTRACE] Set and start specified trace events in order 6763 to facilitate early boot debugging. The event-list is a 6764 comma-separated list of trace events to enable. See 6765 also Documentation/trace/events.rst 6766 6767 trace_instance=[instance-info] 6768 [FTRACE] Create a ring buffer instance early in boot up. 6769 This will be listed in: 6770 6771 /sys/kernel/tracing/instances 6772 6773 Events can be enabled at the time the instance is created 6774 via: 6775 6776 trace_instance=<name>,<system1>:<event1>,<system2>:<event2> 6777 6778 Note, the "<system*>:" portion is optional if the event is 6779 unique. 6780 6781 trace_instance=foo,sched:sched_switch,irq_handler_entry,initcall 6782 6783 will enable the "sched_switch" event (note, the "sched:" is optional, and 6784 the same thing would happen if it was left off). The irq_handler_entry 6785 event, and all events under the "initcall" system. 6786 6787 trace_options=[option-list] 6788 [FTRACE] Enable or disable tracer options at boot. 6789 The option-list is a comma delimited list of options 6790 that can be enabled or disabled just as if you were 6791 to echo the option name into 6792 6793 /sys/kernel/tracing/trace_options 6794 6795 For example, to enable stacktrace option (to dump the 6796 stack trace of each event), add to the command line: 6797 6798 trace_options=stacktrace 6799 6800 See also Documentation/trace/ftrace.rst "trace options" 6801 section. 6802 6803 trace_trigger=[trigger-list] 6804 [FTRACE] Add a event trigger on specific events. 6805 Set a trigger on top of a specific event, with an optional 6806 filter. 6807 6808 The format is is "trace_trigger=<event>.<trigger>[ if <filter>],..." 6809 Where more than one trigger may be specified that are comma deliminated. 6810 6811 For example: 6812 6813 trace_trigger="sched_switch.stacktrace if prev_state == 2" 6814 6815 The above will enable the "stacktrace" trigger on the "sched_switch" 6816 event but only trigger it if the "prev_state" of the "sched_switch" 6817 event is "2" (TASK_UNINTERUPTIBLE). 6818 6819 See also "Event triggers" in Documentation/trace/events.rst 6820 6821 6822 traceoff_on_warning 6823 [FTRACE] enable this option to disable tracing when a 6824 warning is hit. This turns off "tracing_on". Tracing can 6825 be enabled again by echoing '1' into the "tracing_on" 6826 file located in /sys/kernel/tracing/ 6827 6828 This option is useful, as it disables the trace before 6829 the WARNING dump is called, which prevents the trace to 6830 be filled with content caused by the warning output. 6831 6832 This option can also be set at run time via the sysctl 6833 option: kernel/traceoff_on_warning 6834 6835 transparent_hugepage= 6836 [KNL] 6837 Format: [always|madvise|never] 6838 Can be used to control the default behavior of the system 6839 with respect to transparent hugepages. 6840 See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst 6841 for more details. 6842 6843 trusted.source= [KEYS] 6844 Format: <string> 6845 This parameter identifies the trust source as a backend 6846 for trusted keys implementation. Supported trust 6847 sources: 6848 - "tpm" 6849 - "tee" 6850 - "caam" 6851 - "dcp" 6852 If not specified then it defaults to iterating through 6853 the trust source list starting with TPM and assigns the 6854 first trust source as a backend which is initialized 6855 successfully during iteration. 6856 6857 trusted.rng= [KEYS] 6858 Format: <string> 6859 The RNG used to generate key material for trusted keys. 6860 Can be one of: 6861 - "kernel" 6862 - the same value as trusted.source: "tpm" or "tee" 6863 - "default" 6864 If not specified, "default" is used. In this case, 6865 the RNG's choice is left to each individual trust source. 6866 6867 trusted.dcp_use_otp_key 6868 This is intended to be used in combination with 6869 trusted.source=dcp and will select the DCP OTP key 6870 instead of the DCP UNIQUE key blob encryption. 6871 6872 trusted.dcp_skip_zk_test 6873 This is intended to be used in combination with 6874 trusted.source=dcp and will disable the check if the 6875 blob key is all zeros. This is helpful for situations where 6876 having this key zero'ed is acceptable. E.g. in testing 6877 scenarios. 6878 6879 tsc= Disable clocksource stability checks for TSC. 6880 Format: <string> 6881 [x86] reliable: mark tsc clocksource as reliable, this 6882 disables clocksource verification at runtime, as well 6883 as the stability checks done at bootup. Used to enable 6884 high-resolution timer mode on older hardware, and in 6885 virtualized environment. 6886 [x86] noirqtime: Do not use TSC to do irq accounting. 6887 Used to run time disable IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING on any 6888 platforms where RDTSC is slow and this accounting 6889 can add overhead. 6890 [x86] unstable: mark the TSC clocksource as unstable, this 6891 marks the TSC unconditionally unstable at bootup and 6892 avoids any further wobbles once the TSC watchdog notices. 6893 [x86] nowatchdog: disable clocksource watchdog. Used 6894 in situations with strict latency requirements (where 6895 interruptions from clocksource watchdog are not 6896 acceptable). 6897 [x86] recalibrate: force recalibration against a HW timer 6898 (HPET or PM timer) on systems whose TSC frequency was 6899 obtained from HW or FW using either an MSR or CPUID(0x15). 6900 Warn if the difference is more than 500 ppm. 6901 [x86] watchdog: Use TSC as the watchdog clocksource with 6902 which to check other HW timers (HPET or PM timer), but 6903 only on systems where TSC has been deemed trustworthy. 6904 This will be suppressed by an earlier tsc=nowatchdog and 6905 can be overridden by a later tsc=nowatchdog. A console 6906 message will flag any such suppression or overriding. 6907 6908 tsc_early_khz= [X86,EARLY] Skip early TSC calibration and use the given 6909 value instead. Useful when the early TSC frequency discovery 6910 procedure is not reliable, such as on overclocked systems 6911 with CPUID.16h support and partial CPUID.15h support. 6912 Format: <unsigned int> 6913 6914 tsx= [X86] Control Transactional Synchronization 6915 Extensions (TSX) feature in Intel processors that 6916 support TSX control. 6917 6918 This parameter controls the TSX feature. The options are: 6919 6920 on - Enable TSX on the system. Although there are 6921 mitigations for all known security vulnerabilities, 6922 TSX has been known to be an accelerator for 6923 several previous speculation-related CVEs, and 6924 so there may be unknown security risks associated 6925 with leaving it enabled. 6926 6927 off - Disable TSX on the system. (Note that this 6928 option takes effect only on newer CPUs which are 6929 not vulnerable to MDS, i.e., have 6930 MSR_IA32_ARCH_CAPABILITIES.MDS_NO=1 and which get 6931 the new IA32_TSX_CTRL MSR through a microcode 6932 update. This new MSR allows for the reliable 6933 deactivation of the TSX functionality.) 6934 6935 auto - Disable TSX if X86_BUG_TAA is present, 6936 otherwise enable TSX on the system. 6937 6938 Not specifying this option is equivalent to tsx=off. 6939 6940 See Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/tsx_async_abort.rst 6941 for more details. 6942 6943 tsx_async_abort= [X86,INTEL,EARLY] Control mitigation for the TSX Async 6944 Abort (TAA) vulnerability. 6945 6946 Similar to Micro-architectural Data Sampling (MDS) 6947 certain CPUs that support Transactional 6948 Synchronization Extensions (TSX) are vulnerable to an 6949 exploit against CPU internal buffers which can forward 6950 information to a disclosure gadget under certain 6951 conditions. 6952 6953 In vulnerable processors, the speculatively forwarded 6954 data can be used in a cache side channel attack, to 6955 access data to which the attacker does not have direct 6956 access. 6957 6958 This parameter controls the TAA mitigation. The 6959 options are: 6960 6961 full - Enable TAA mitigation on vulnerable CPUs 6962 if TSX is enabled. 6963 6964 full,nosmt - Enable TAA mitigation and disable SMT on 6965 vulnerable CPUs. If TSX is disabled, SMT 6966 is not disabled because CPU is not 6967 vulnerable to cross-thread TAA attacks. 6968 off - Unconditionally disable TAA mitigation 6969 6970 On MDS-affected machines, tsx_async_abort=off can be 6971 prevented by an active MDS mitigation as both vulnerabilities 6972 are mitigated with the same mechanism so in order to disable 6973 this mitigation, you need to specify mds=off too. 6974 6975 Not specifying this option is equivalent to 6976 tsx_async_abort=full. On CPUs which are MDS affected 6977 and deploy MDS mitigation, TAA mitigation is not 6978 required and doesn't provide any additional 6979 mitigation. 6980 6981 For details see: 6982 Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/tsx_async_abort.rst 6983 6984 turbografx.map[2|3]= [HW,JOY] 6985 TurboGraFX parallel port interface 6986 Format: 6987 <port#>,<js1>,<js2>,<js3>,<js4>,<js5>,<js6>,<js7> 6988 See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst 6989 6990 udbg-immortal [PPC] When debugging early kernel crashes that 6991 happen after console_init() and before a proper 6992 console driver takes over, this boot options might 6993 help "seeing" what's going on. 6994 6995 uhash_entries= [KNL,NET] 6996 Set number of hash buckets for UDP/UDP-Lite connections 6997 6998 uhci-hcd.ignore_oc= 6999 [USB] Ignore overcurrent events (default N). 7000 Some badly-designed motherboards generate lots of 7001 bogus events, for ports that aren't wired to 7002 anything. Set this parameter to avoid log spamming. 7003 Note that genuine overcurrent events won't be 7004 reported either. 7005 7006 unknown_nmi_panic 7007 [X86] Cause panic on unknown NMI. 7008 7009 unwind_debug [X86-64,EARLY] 7010 Enable unwinder debug output. This can be 7011 useful for debugging certain unwinder error 7012 conditions, including corrupt stacks and 7013 bad/missing unwinder metadata. 7014 7015 usbcore.authorized_default= 7016 [USB] Default USB device authorization: 7017 (default -1 = authorized (same as 1), 7018 0 = not authorized, 1 = authorized, 2 = authorized 7019 if device connected to internal port) 7020 7021 usbcore.autosuspend= 7022 [USB] The autosuspend time delay (in seconds) used 7023 for newly-detected USB devices (default 2). This 7024 is the time required before an idle device will be 7025 autosuspended. Devices for which the delay is set 7026 to a negative value won't be autosuspended at all. 7027 7028 usbcore.usbfs_snoop= 7029 [USB] Set to log all usbfs traffic (default 0 = off). 7030 7031 usbcore.usbfs_snoop_max= 7032 [USB] Maximum number of bytes to snoop in each URB 7033 (default = 65536). 7034 7035 usbcore.blinkenlights= 7036 [USB] Set to cycle leds on hubs (default 0 = off). 7037 7038 usbcore.old_scheme_first= 7039 [USB] Start with the old device initialization 7040 scheme (default 0 = off). 7041 7042 usbcore.usbfs_memory_mb= 7043 [USB] Memory limit (in MB) for buffers allocated by 7044 usbfs (default = 16, 0 = max = 2047). 7045 7046 usbcore.use_both_schemes= 7047 [USB] Try the other device initialization scheme 7048 if the first one fails (default 1 = enabled). 7049 7050 usbcore.initial_descriptor_timeout= 7051 [USB] Specifies timeout for the initial 64-byte 7052 USB_REQ_GET_DESCRIPTOR request in milliseconds 7053 (default 5000 = 5.0 seconds). 7054 7055 usbcore.nousb [USB] Disable the USB subsystem 7056 7057 usbcore.quirks= 7058 [USB] A list of quirk entries to augment the built-in 7059 usb core quirk list. List entries are separated by 7060 commas. Each entry has the form 7061 VendorID:ProductID:Flags. The IDs are 4-digit hex 7062 numbers and Flags is a set of letters. Each letter 7063 will change the built-in quirk; setting it if it is 7064 clear and clearing it if it is set. The letters have 7065 the following meanings: 7066 a = USB_QUIRK_STRING_FETCH_255 (string 7067 descriptors must not be fetched using 7068 a 255-byte read); 7069 b = USB_QUIRK_RESET_RESUME (device can't resume 7070 correctly so reset it instead); 7071 c = USB_QUIRK_NO_SET_INTF (device can't handle 7072 Set-Interface requests); 7073 d = USB_QUIRK_CONFIG_INTF_STRINGS (device can't 7074 handle its Configuration or Interface 7075 strings); 7076 e = USB_QUIRK_RESET (device can't be reset 7077 (e.g morph devices), don't use reset); 7078 f = USB_QUIRK_HONOR_BNUMINTERFACES (device has 7079 more interface descriptions than the 7080 bNumInterfaces count, and can't handle 7081 talking to these interfaces); 7082 g = USB_QUIRK_DELAY_INIT (device needs a pause 7083 during initialization, after we read 7084 the device descriptor); 7085 h = USB_QUIRK_LINEAR_UFRAME_INTR_BINTERVAL (For 7086 high speed and super speed interrupt 7087 endpoints, the USB 2.0 and USB 3.0 spec 7088 require the interval in microframes (1 7089 microframe = 125 microseconds) to be 7090 calculated as interval = 2 ^ 7091 (bInterval-1). 7092 Devices with this quirk report their 7093 bInterval as the result of this 7094 calculation instead of the exponent 7095 variable used in the calculation); 7096 i = USB_QUIRK_DEVICE_QUALIFIER (device can't 7097 handle device_qualifier descriptor 7098 requests); 7099 j = USB_QUIRK_IGNORE_REMOTE_WAKEUP (device 7100 generates spurious wakeup, ignore 7101 remote wakeup capability); 7102 k = USB_QUIRK_NO_LPM (device can't handle Link 7103 Power Management); 7104 l = USB_QUIRK_LINEAR_FRAME_INTR_BINTERVAL 7105 (Device reports its bInterval as linear 7106 frames instead of the USB 2.0 7107 calculation); 7108 m = USB_QUIRK_DISCONNECT_SUSPEND (Device needs 7109 to be disconnected before suspend to 7110 prevent spurious wakeup); 7111 n = USB_QUIRK_DELAY_CTRL_MSG (Device needs a 7112 pause after every control message); 7113 o = USB_QUIRK_HUB_SLOW_RESET (Hub needs extra 7114 delay after resetting its port); 7115 p = USB_QUIRK_SHORT_SET_ADDRESS_REQ_TIMEOUT 7116 (Reduce timeout of the SET_ADDRESS 7117 request from 5000 ms to 500 ms); 7118 Example: quirks=0781:5580:bk,0a5c:5834:gij 7119 7120 usbhid.mousepoll= 7121 [USBHID] The interval which mice are to be polled at. 7122 7123 usbhid.jspoll= 7124 [USBHID] The interval which joysticks are to be polled at. 7125 7126 usbhid.kbpoll= 7127 [USBHID] The interval which keyboards are to be polled at. 7128 7129 usb-storage.delay_use= 7130 [UMS] The delay in seconds before a new device is 7131 scanned for Logical Units (default 1). 7132 Optionally the delay in milliseconds if the value has 7133 suffix with "ms". 7134 Example: delay_use=2567ms 7135 7136 usb-storage.quirks= 7137 [UMS] A list of quirks entries to supplement or 7138 override the built-in unusual_devs list. List 7139 entries are separated by commas. Each entry has 7140 the form VID:PID:Flags where VID and PID are Vendor 7141 and Product ID values (4-digit hex numbers) and 7142 Flags is a set of characters, each corresponding 7143 to a common usb-storage quirk flag as follows: 7144 a = SANE_SENSE (collect more than 18 bytes 7145 of sense data, not on uas); 7146 b = BAD_SENSE (don't collect more than 18 7147 bytes of sense data, not on uas); 7148 c = FIX_CAPACITY (decrease the reported 7149 device capacity by one sector); 7150 d = NO_READ_DISC_INFO (don't use 7151 READ_DISC_INFO command, not on uas); 7152 e = NO_READ_CAPACITY_16 (don't use 7153 READ_CAPACITY_16 command); 7154 f = NO_REPORT_OPCODES (don't use report opcodes 7155 command, uas only); 7156 g = MAX_SECTORS_240 (don't transfer more than 7157 240 sectors at a time, uas only); 7158 h = CAPACITY_HEURISTICS (decrease the 7159 reported device capacity by one 7160 sector if the number is odd); 7161 i = IGNORE_DEVICE (don't bind to this 7162 device); 7163 j = NO_REPORT_LUNS (don't use report luns 7164 command, uas only); 7165 k = NO_SAME (do not use WRITE_SAME, uas only) 7166 l = NOT_LOCKABLE (don't try to lock and 7167 unlock ejectable media, not on uas); 7168 m = MAX_SECTORS_64 (don't transfer more 7169 than 64 sectors = 32 KB at a time, 7170 not on uas); 7171 n = INITIAL_READ10 (force a retry of the 7172 initial READ(10) command, not on uas); 7173 o = CAPACITY_OK (accept the capacity 7174 reported by the device, not on uas); 7175 p = WRITE_CACHE (the device cache is ON 7176 by default, not on uas); 7177 r = IGNORE_RESIDUE (the device reports 7178 bogus residue values, not on uas); 7179 s = SINGLE_LUN (the device has only one 7180 Logical Unit); 7181 t = NO_ATA_1X (don't allow ATA(12) and ATA(16) 7182 commands, uas only); 7183 u = IGNORE_UAS (don't bind to the uas driver); 7184 w = NO_WP_DETECT (don't test whether the 7185 medium is write-protected). 7186 y = ALWAYS_SYNC (issue a SYNCHRONIZE_CACHE 7187 even if the device claims no cache, 7188 not on uas) 7189 Example: quirks=0419:aaf5:rl,0421:0433:rc 7190 7191 user_debug= [KNL,ARM] 7192 Format: <int> 7193 See arch/arm/Kconfig.debug help text. 7194 1 - undefined instruction events 7195 2 - system calls 7196 4 - invalid data aborts 7197 8 - SIGSEGV faults 7198 16 - SIGBUS faults 7199 Example: user_debug=31 7200 7201 userpte= 7202 [X86,EARLY] Flags controlling user PTE allocations. 7203 7204 nohigh = do not allocate PTE pages in 7205 HIGHMEM regardless of setting 7206 of CONFIG_HIGHPTE. 7207 7208 vdso= [X86,SH,SPARC] 7209 On X86_32, this is an alias for vdso32=. Otherwise: 7210 7211 vdso=1: enable VDSO (the default) 7212 vdso=0: disable VDSO mapping 7213 7214 vdso32= [X86] Control the 32-bit vDSO 7215 vdso32=1: enable 32-bit VDSO 7216 vdso32=0 or vdso32=2: disable 32-bit VDSO 7217 7218 See the help text for CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO for more 7219 details. If CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO is set, the default is 7220 vdso32=0; otherwise, the default is vdso32=1. 7221 7222 For compatibility with older kernels, vdso32=2 is an 7223 alias for vdso32=0. 7224 7225 Try vdso32=0 if you encounter an error that says: 7226 dl_main: Assertion `(void *) ph->p_vaddr == _rtld_local._dl_sysinfo_dso' failed! 7227 7228 video= [FB,EARLY] Frame buffer configuration 7229 See Documentation/fb/modedb.rst. 7230 7231 video.brightness_switch_enabled= [ACPI] 7232 Format: [0|1] 7233 If set to 1, on receiving an ACPI notify event 7234 generated by hotkey, video driver will adjust brightness 7235 level and then send out the event to user space through 7236 the allocated input device. If set to 0, video driver 7237 will only send out the event without touching backlight 7238 brightness level. 7239 default: 1 7240 7241 virtio_mmio.device= 7242 [VMMIO] Memory mapped virtio (platform) device. 7243 7244 <size>@<baseaddr>:<irq>[:<id>] 7245 where: 7246 <size> := size (can use standard suffixes 7247 like K, M and G) 7248 <baseaddr> := physical base address 7249 <irq> := interrupt number (as passed to 7250 request_irq()) 7251 <id> := (optional) platform device id 7252 example: 7253 virtio_mmio.device=1K@0x100b0000:48:7 7254 7255 Can be used multiple times for multiple devices. 7256 7257 vga= [BOOT,X86-32] Select a particular video mode 7258 See Documentation/arch/x86/boot.rst and 7259 Documentation/admin-guide/svga.rst. 7260 Use vga=ask for menu. 7261 This is actually a boot loader parameter; the value is 7262 passed to the kernel using a special protocol. 7263 7264 vm_debug[=options] [KNL] Available with CONFIG_DEBUG_VM=y. 7265 May slow down system boot speed, especially when 7266 enabled on systems with a large amount of memory. 7267 All options are enabled by default, and this 7268 interface is meant to allow for selectively 7269 enabling or disabling specific virtual memory 7270 debugging features. 7271 7272 Available options are: 7273 P Enable page structure init time poisoning 7274 - Disable all of the above options 7275 7276 vmalloc=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,EARLY] Forces the vmalloc area to have an 7277 exact size of <nn>. This can be used to increase 7278 the minimum size (128MB on x86, arm32 platforms). 7279 It can also be used to decrease the size and leave more room 7280 for directly mapped kernel RAM. Note that this parameter does 7281 not exist on many other platforms (including arm64, alpha, 7282 loongarch, arc, csky, hexagon, microblaze, mips, nios2, openrisc, 7283 parisc, m64k, powerpc, riscv, sh, um, xtensa, s390, sparc). 7284 7285 vmcp_cma=nn[MG] [KNL,S390,EARLY] 7286 Sets the memory size reserved for contiguous memory 7287 allocations for the vmcp device driver. 7288 7289 vmhalt= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after system halt. 7290 Format: <command> 7291 7292 vmpanic= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after kernel panic. 7293 Format: <command> 7294 7295 vmpoff= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after power off. 7296 Format: <command> 7297 7298 vsyscall= [X86-64,EARLY] 7299 Controls the behavior of vsyscalls (i.e. calls to 7300 fixed addresses of 0xffffffffff600x00 from legacy 7301 code). Most statically-linked binaries and older 7302 versions of glibc use these calls. Because these 7303 functions are at fixed addresses, they make nice 7304 targets for exploits that can control RIP. 7305 7306 emulate Vsyscalls turn into traps and are emulated 7307 reasonably safely. The vsyscall page is 7308 readable. 7309 7310 xonly [default] Vsyscalls turn into traps and are 7311 emulated reasonably safely. The vsyscall 7312 page is not readable. 7313 7314 none Vsyscalls don't work at all. This makes 7315 them quite hard to use for exploits but 7316 might break your system. 7317 7318 vt.color= [VT] Default text color. 7319 Format: 0xYX, X = foreground, Y = background. 7320 Default: 0x07 = light gray on black. 7321 7322 vt.cur_default= [VT] Default cursor shape. 7323 Format: 0xCCBBAA, where AA, BB, and CC are the same as 7324 the parameters of the <Esc>[?A;B;Cc escape sequence; 7325 see VGA-softcursor.txt. Default: 2 = underline. 7326 7327 vt.default_blu= [VT] 7328 Format: <blue0>,<blue1>,<blue2>,...,<blue15> 7329 Change the default blue palette of the console. 7330 This is a 16-member array composed of values 7331 ranging from 0-255. 7332 7333 vt.default_grn= [VT] 7334 Format: <green0>,<green1>,<green2>,...,<green15> 7335 Change the default green palette of the console. 7336 This is a 16-member array composed of values 7337 ranging from 0-255. 7338 7339 vt.default_red= [VT] 7340 Format: <red0>,<red1>,<red2>,...,<red15> 7341 Change the default red palette of the console. 7342 This is a 16-member array composed of values 7343 ranging from 0-255. 7344 7345 vt.default_utf8= 7346 [VT] 7347 Format=<0|1> 7348 Set system-wide default UTF-8 mode for all tty's. 7349 Default is 1, i.e. UTF-8 mode is enabled for all 7350 newly opened terminals. 7351 7352 vt.global_cursor_default= 7353 [VT] 7354 Format=<-1|0|1> 7355 Set system-wide default for whether a cursor 7356 is shown on new VTs. Default is -1, 7357 i.e. cursors will be created by default unless 7358 overridden by individual drivers. 0 will hide 7359 cursors, 1 will display them. 7360 7361 vt.italic= [VT] Default color for italic text; 0-15. 7362 Default: 2 = green. 7363 7364 vt.underline= [VT] Default color for underlined text; 0-15. 7365 Default: 3 = cyan. 7366 7367 watchdog timers [HW,WDT] For information on watchdog timers, 7368 see Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-parameters.rst 7369 or other driver-specific files in the 7370 Documentation/watchdog/ directory. 7371 7372 watchdog_thresh= 7373 [KNL] 7374 Set the hard lockup detector stall duration 7375 threshold in seconds. The soft lockup detector 7376 threshold is set to twice the value. A value of 0 7377 disables both lockup detectors. Default is 10 7378 seconds. 7379 7380 workqueue.unbound_cpus= 7381 [KNL,SMP] Specify to constrain one or some CPUs 7382 to use in unbound workqueues. 7383 Format: <cpu-list> 7384 By default, all online CPUs are available for 7385 unbound workqueues. 7386 7387 workqueue.watchdog_thresh= 7388 If CONFIG_WQ_WATCHDOG is configured, workqueue can 7389 warn stall conditions and dump internal state to 7390 help debugging. 0 disables workqueue stall 7391 detection; otherwise, it's the stall threshold 7392 duration in seconds. The default value is 30 and 7393 it can be updated at runtime by writing to the 7394 corresponding sysfs file. 7395 7396 workqueue.panic_on_stall=<uint> 7397 Panic when workqueue stall is detected by 7398 CONFIG_WQ_WATCHDOG. It sets the number times of the 7399 stall to trigger panic. 7400 7401 The default is 0, which disables the panic on stall. 7402 7403 workqueue.cpu_intensive_thresh_us= 7404 Per-cpu work items which run for longer than this 7405 threshold are automatically considered CPU intensive 7406 and excluded from concurrency management to prevent 7407 them from noticeably delaying other per-cpu work 7408 items. Default is 10000 (10ms). 7409 7410 If CONFIG_WQ_CPU_INTENSIVE_REPORT is set, the kernel 7411 will report the work functions which violate this 7412 threshold repeatedly. They are likely good 7413 candidates for using WQ_UNBOUND workqueues instead. 7414 7415 workqueue.cpu_intensive_warning_thresh=<uint> 7416 If CONFIG_WQ_CPU_INTENSIVE_REPORT is set, the kernel 7417 will report the work functions which violate the 7418 intensive_threshold_us repeatedly. In order to prevent 7419 spurious warnings, start printing only after a work 7420 function has violated this threshold number of times. 7421 7422 The default is 4 times. 0 disables the warning. 7423 7424 workqueue.power_efficient 7425 Per-cpu workqueues are generally preferred because 7426 they show better performance thanks to cache 7427 locality; unfortunately, per-cpu workqueues tend to 7428 be more power hungry than unbound workqueues. 7429 7430 Enabling this makes the per-cpu workqueues which 7431 were observed to contribute significantly to power 7432 consumption unbound, leading to measurably lower 7433 power usage at the cost of small performance 7434 overhead. 7435 7436 The default value of this parameter is determined by 7437 the config option CONFIG_WQ_POWER_EFFICIENT_DEFAULT. 7438 7439 workqueue.default_affinity_scope= 7440 Select the default affinity scope to use for unbound 7441 workqueues. Can be one of "cpu", "smt", "cache", 7442 "numa" and "system". Default is "cache". For more 7443 information, see the Affinity Scopes section in 7444 Documentation/core-api/workqueue.rst. 7445 7446 This can be changed after boot by writing to the 7447 matching /sys/module/workqueue/parameters file. All 7448 workqueues with the "default" affinity scope will be 7449 updated accordingly. 7450 7451 workqueue.debug_force_rr_cpu 7452 Workqueue used to implicitly guarantee that work 7453 items queued without explicit CPU specified are put 7454 on the local CPU. This guarantee is no longer true 7455 and while local CPU is still preferred work items 7456 may be put on foreign CPUs. This debug option 7457 forces round-robin CPU selection to flush out 7458 usages which depend on the now broken guarantee. 7459 When enabled, memory and cache locality will be 7460 impacted. 7461 7462 writecombine= [LOONGARCH,EARLY] Control the MAT (Memory Access 7463 Type) of ioremap_wc(). 7464 7465 on - Enable writecombine, use WUC for ioremap_wc() 7466 off - Disable writecombine, use SUC for ioremap_wc() 7467 7468 x2apic_phys [X86-64,APIC,EARLY] Use x2apic physical mode instead of 7469 default x2apic cluster mode on platforms 7470 supporting x2apic. 7471 7472 xen_512gb_limit [KNL,X86-64,XEN] 7473 Restricts the kernel running paravirtualized under Xen 7474 to use only up to 512 GB of RAM. The reason to do so is 7475 crash analysis tools and Xen tools for doing domain 7476 save/restore/migration must be enabled to handle larger 7477 domains. 7478 7479 xen_emul_unplug= [HW,X86,XEN,EARLY] 7480 Unplug Xen emulated devices 7481 Format: [unplug0,][unplug1] 7482 ide-disks -- unplug primary master IDE devices 7483 aux-ide-disks -- unplug non-primary-master IDE devices 7484 nics -- unplug network devices 7485 all -- unplug all emulated devices (NICs and IDE disks) 7486 unnecessary -- unplugging emulated devices is 7487 unnecessary even if the host did not respond to 7488 the unplug protocol 7489 never -- do not unplug even if version check succeeds 7490 7491 xen_legacy_crash [X86,XEN,EARLY] 7492 Crash from Xen panic notifier, without executing late 7493 panic() code such as dumping handler. 7494 7495 xen_mc_debug [X86,XEN,EARLY] 7496 Enable multicall debugging when running as a Xen PV guest. 7497 Enabling this feature will reduce performance a little 7498 bit, so it should only be enabled for obtaining extended 7499 debug data in case of multicall errors. 7500 7501 xen_msr_safe= [X86,XEN,EARLY] 7502 Format: <bool> 7503 Select whether to always use non-faulting (safe) MSR 7504 access functions when running as Xen PV guest. The 7505 default value is controlled by CONFIG_XEN_PV_MSR_SAFE. 7506 7507 xen_nopv [X86] 7508 Disables the PV optimizations forcing the HVM guest to 7509 run as generic HVM guest with no PV drivers. 7510 This option is obsoleted by the "nopv" option, which 7511 has equivalent effect for XEN platform. 7512 7513 xen_no_vector_callback 7514 [KNL,X86,XEN,EARLY] Disable the vector callback for Xen 7515 event channel interrupts. 7516 7517 xen_scrub_pages= [XEN] 7518 Boolean option to control scrubbing pages before giving them back 7519 to Xen, for use by other domains. Can be also changed at runtime 7520 with /sys/devices/system/xen_memory/xen_memory0/scrub_pages. 7521 Default value controlled with CONFIG_XEN_SCRUB_PAGES_DEFAULT. 7522 7523 xen_timer_slop= [X86-64,XEN,EARLY] 7524 Set the timer slop (in nanoseconds) for the virtual Xen 7525 timers (default is 100000). This adjusts the minimum 7526 delta of virtualized Xen timers, where lower values 7527 improve timer resolution at the expense of processing 7528 more timer interrupts. 7529 7530 xen.balloon_boot_timeout= [XEN] 7531 The time (in seconds) to wait before giving up to boot 7532 in case initial ballooning fails to free enough memory. 7533 Applies only when running as HVM or PVH guest and 7534 started with less memory configured than allowed at 7535 max. Default is 180. 7536 7537 xen.event_eoi_delay= [XEN] 7538 How long to delay EOI handling in case of event 7539 storms (jiffies). Default is 10. 7540 7541 xen.event_loop_timeout= [XEN] 7542 After which time (jiffies) the event handling loop 7543 should start to delay EOI handling. Default is 2. 7544 7545 xen.fifo_events= [XEN] 7546 Boolean parameter to disable using fifo event handling 7547 even if available. Normally fifo event handling is 7548 preferred over the 2-level event handling, as it is 7549 fairer and the number of possible event channels is 7550 much higher. Default is on (use fifo events). 7551 7552 xirc2ps_cs= [NET,PCMCIA] 7553 Format: 7554 <irq>,<irq_mask>,<io>,<full_duplex>,<do_sound>,<lockup_hack>[,<irq2>[,<irq3>[,<irq4>]]] 7555 7556 xive= [PPC] 7557 By default on POWER9 and above, the kernel will 7558 natively use the XIVE interrupt controller. This option 7559 allows the fallback firmware mode to be used: 7560 7561 off Fallback to firmware control of XIVE interrupt 7562 controller on both pseries and powernv 7563 platforms. Only useful on POWER9 and above. 7564 7565 xive.store-eoi=off [PPC] 7566 By default on POWER10 and above, the kernel will use 7567 stores for EOI handling when the XIVE interrupt mode 7568 is active. This option allows the XIVE driver to use 7569 loads instead, as on POWER9. 7570 7571 xhci-hcd.quirks [USB,KNL] 7572 A hex value specifying bitmask with supplemental xhci 7573 host controller quirks. Meaning of each bit can be 7574 consulted in header drivers/usb/host/xhci.h. 7575 7576 xmon [PPC,EARLY] 7577 Format: { early | on | rw | ro | off } 7578 Controls if xmon debugger is enabled. Default is off. 7579 Passing only "xmon" is equivalent to "xmon=early". 7580 early Call xmon as early as possible on boot; xmon 7581 debugger is called from setup_arch(). 7582 on xmon debugger hooks will be installed so xmon 7583 is only called on a kernel crash. Default mode, 7584 i.e. either "ro" or "rw" mode, is controlled 7585 with CONFIG_XMON_DEFAULT_RO_MODE. 7586 rw xmon debugger hooks will be installed so xmon 7587 is called only on a kernel crash, mode is write, 7588 meaning SPR registers, memory and, other data 7589 can be written using xmon commands. 7590 ro same as "rw" option above but SPR registers, 7591 memory, and other data can't be written using 7592 xmon commands. 7593 off xmon is disabled. 7594